WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2022 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 371

By Senator Sypolt

[Introduced January 17, 2022; 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 Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to telehealth and interstate telehealth registration for physicians, podiatric physicians, and physician assistants.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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

§64-9-1. Board of Medicine.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of §30-3-7 of this code, modified by the Board of Medicine  to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 16, 2021, relating to the Board of Medicine  (Telehealth and Interstate Telehealth Registration for Physicians, Podiatric Physicians and Physician Assistants, 11 CSR 15), is authorized with the amendment set forth below:

On page 7, subsection 7.4, after the words, "standard of care" by inserting the words, "with respect to an established patient".

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Telehealth and Interstate Telehealth Registration for Physicians, Podiatric Physicians and Physician Assistants.

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