WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2020 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill Number

By Delegate Foster and Porterfield

[Introduced January 14, 2020; Referred

to the Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources then 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 WV exempted dairy farms and milk and milk products processing rules.

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 January 6, 2020, authorized under the authority of §19-11E-8 of this code, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture (WV exempted dairy farms and milk and milk products processing rules, 61 CSR 40), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to WV exempted dairy farms and milk and milk products processing rules.

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