WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2020 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 449

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced January 14, 2020; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-10-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Commerce to promulgate a legislative rule relating to small business innovation research and small business technology transfer matching funds program.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 10. Authorization for Department of commerce to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-10-1. Department of Commerce.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 18, 2019, authorized under the authority of §5B-8-2 of this code, modified by the Department of Commerce to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 5, 2019, relating to the Department of Commerce (small business innovation research and small business technology transfer matching funds program, 145 CSR 15), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Commerce to promulgate a legislative rule relating to small business innovation research and small business technology transfer matching funds program.

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