WEST virginia legislature

2016 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 4113

By Delegates Sobonya, Frich and Moffatt

[Introduced January 18, 2016; Referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to infectious medical waste.

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. Department of Health and Human Resources.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 27, 2015, authorized under the authority of section four, article one, chapter sixteen, of this code, modified by the Department of Health and Human Resources to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 23, 2015, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (infectious medical waste, 64 CSR 56), is authorized.

NOTE: purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Infectious Medical Waste.

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