West Virginia Legislature

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 367

By Senator Woodrum

[Introduced February 13, 2025; 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 Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to employment reference and inquiries and background checks.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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

§64-9-1. Department of Agriculture.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 6, 2024, authorized under the authority of §19-1-3b of this code, modified by the Department of Agriculture to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 16, 2024, relating to the Department of Agriculture (employment reference and inquiries and background checks, 61 CSR 20), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to employment reference and inquiries and background checks.

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