WEST virginia legislature

2021 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2432

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced February 13, 2021; Referred to the Committee on Government Organization]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to client rights at state-operated mental health facilities.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 5. Authorization for Department of health and human resources to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-5-1. Department of Health and Human Resources.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 26, 2020, authorized under the authority of §27-5-9(g) of this code, modified by the Department of Health and Human Resources to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 9, 2020, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (client rights at state-operated mental health facilities, 64 CSR 59), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to client rights at state-operated mental health facilities.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.