WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2022 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4227

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 18, 2022; Referred to the Committee on Government Organization 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 Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Use of Digital Signatures.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 9. Authorization for miscellanous agenciesd and boards to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-9-1. Secretary of State.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of §39A-3-3 of this code, modified by the Secretary of State to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 29, 2021, relating to the Secretary of State (Use of Digital Signatures, 153 CSR 30), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Use of Digital Signatures.

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