WEST virginia legislature

2021 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2440

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced February 13, 2021; Referred to the Committee on Government Organization]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5-1 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 procedure to contest the substantiation of child abuse or neglect.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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 August 26, 2020, authorized under the authority of §49-4-601b 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 15, 2020, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (procedure to contest the substantiation of child abuse or neglect, 78 CSR 27), 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 procedure to contest the substantiation of child abuse or neglect.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.