ENROLLED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

H. B. 2233

(By Delegates Walters, Sobonya, Rohrbach, Ambler, Mr. Speaker

(Mr. Armstead), Storch, H. White, R. Phillips, Ireland, Hanshaw

and E. Nelson)

[Passed March 14, 2015; in effect ninety days from passage.]

AN ACT to amend and reenact §29A-3-16 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee, with the assistance of the Legislative Auditor's Office, to review any interpretive, procedural and current legislative rule to determine if it is achieving its purpose; and requiring the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee to make recommendations to the applicable agency or board and the Joint Committee on Government and Finance for amendment or repeal of the rule.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

            That §29A-3-16 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 3. RULE-MAKING.

§29A-3-16. Legislative review of procedural rules, interpretive legislative rules.

            (a) The Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee may, with the assistance of the Legislative Auditor's Office, review any procedural rule, interpretive rule or existing legislative rule to determine if the rule is achieving its purpose, and based on its determination, if the rule should be continued, amended or repealed.

            (b) Following the review, the Legislative Rule-Making Committee shall make recommendations to the agency or board, which promulgated the rule, and to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance.