65 CSR 7

              Senate Bill No. 127

(By Senators Minard, Snyder, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and K. Facemyer)

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[Introduced January 18, 2011; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certificates of need.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-5-1. Health Care Authority.

    The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of July, two thousand ten, authorized under the authority of section eight-c, article two-d, chapter sixteen, of this code, modified by the Health Care Authority to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the state register on the eighth day of December, two thousand ten, relating to the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to (certificates of need, 65 CSR 7), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Certificates of Need.

    This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.