WEST virginia legislature

2016 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 4119

By Delegates Sobonya, Frich and Moffat

[Introduced January 18, 2016; Referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 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 qualifications for a restricted provisional license to practice as a social worker within the department.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

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 July 31, 2015, authorized under the authority of section sixteen, article thirty, chapter thirty, 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 December 8, 2015, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (qualifications for a restricted provisional license to practice as a social worker within the department, 78 CSR 24), 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 Qualifications for a Restricted Provisional License to Practice as a Social Worker within the Department.

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