West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 51

BY Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 10, 2024; referred

to the Committee on sthe Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-7-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the West Virginia Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to health benefit plan network access and adequacy.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 7. Authorization for Department of revenue to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-7-1. West Virginia Insurance Commissioner.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 12, 2023, authorized under the authority of §33-55-9 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Insurance Commissioner to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 14, 2023, relating to the West Virginia Insurance Commissioner (health benefit plan network access and adequacy, 114 CSR 100), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Insurance Commissioner to promulgate a legislative rule relating to health benefit plan network access and adequacy.

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