WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2310

By Delegate D. Smith

[Introduced February 12, 2025; referred to the Committee on Government Organization]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Board of Occupational Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to telehealth practice requirements and definitions.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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

§64-9-1. Board of Occupational Therapy.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on June 4, 2024, authorized under the authority of §30-1-26 of this code, modified by the Board of Occupational Therapy to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on August 29, 2024, relating to the Board of Occupational Therapy (telehealth practice requirements and definitions, 13 CSR 09), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Occupational Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to telehealth practice requirements and definitions.

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