West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 25

By Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 10, 2024; referred

to the Committee on 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 to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medical examiner requirements for postmortem inquiries.

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.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 13, 2023, authorized under the authority of §61-12-16 of this code, modified by the Department of Health to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 7, 2023, relating to the Department of Health (medical examiner requirements for postmortem inquiries, 64 CSR 84), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medical examiner requirements for postmortem inquiries.

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