West Virginia Legislature

2023 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 324

BY Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 20, 2023; 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 and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the development of methodologies to examine needs for substance use disorder treatment facilities within the state.

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 June 22, 2022, authorized under the authority of §16-53-3 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 October 26, 2022, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (development of methodologies to examine needs for substance use disorder treatment facilities within the state, 69 CSR 13), 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 the development methodologies to examine needs for substance use disorder treatment facilities within the state.

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