WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2021 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 155

By Senator Sypolt

[Introduced February 11, 2021; referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to exemption from certificate of need.

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. Health Care Authority.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on September 28, 2020, authorized under the authority of §16-2D-4 of this code, relating to the Health Care Authority (exemption from certificate of need, 65 CSR 29), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to exemption from certificate of need.

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