WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2019 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2276

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 10, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary. ]

 

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to industrial hemp.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 9. Authorization for Miscellaneous Agencies and Boards to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-9-1. Commissioner of Agriculture.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 27, 2018, authorized under the authority of §19-12E-7 of this code, modified by the Commissioner of Agriculture to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 11, 2018, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture (industrial hemp, 61 CSR 29), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to industrial hemp.

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