West Virginia Legislature

2023 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2663

BY Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 17, 2023; 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 Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to goals for foster children.

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 September 20, 2022, authorized under the authority of §49-2-126 of this code, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (goals for foster children, 78 CSR 25), 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 goals for foster children.

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