WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2022 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4136
BY Delegate Foster
[Introduced January 18, 2022; Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Certificate of Need.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. Authorization for Department of health of human resources to promulgate legislative rules.
§64-5-1. Health Care Authority.
The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of §16-2D-4 of this code, modified by the Health Care Authority to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 20, 2021, relating to the Health Care Authority (Certificate of Need , 65 CSR 32), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Certificate of Need.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.