114A CSR 2

H. B. 4179

(By Delegate(s) Brown, Poling, D., Fleischauer, Talbott and Overington)

[Introduced January 19, 2012; referred to the Committee on Finance then the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend and reenact article 9, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources, the Insurance Commissioner and the Chair of the West Virginia Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the all-payer claims database program’s privacy and security.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That article 7, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-1. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources, the Insurance Commissioner and the Chair of the West Virginia Health Care Authority .

    The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the twenty-eighth day of July, two thousand eleven, authorized under the authority of section three, article two, chapter thirty-three, of this code, relating to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources, the Insurance Commissioner and the Chair of the West Virginia Health Care Authority (all-payer claims database program’s privacy and security, 114A CSR 2), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources, the Insurance Commissioner and the Chair of the West Virginia Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the All-payer Claims Database Program’s Privacy and Security.

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