West Virginia Legislature

2026 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 281

BY Senator Rucker

[Introduced January 15, 2026; referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-6-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to law-enforcement training and certification standards.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 6. Authorization for Department of homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-6-1. Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 24, 2025, authorized under the authority of §30-29-3 of this code, modified by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 24, 2025, relating to the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction (law enforcement training and certification standards, 149 CSR 02), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to law enforcement training and certification standards.

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