Senate Bill No. 182

(By Senator Snyder)

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[Introduced January 14, 2015; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 6, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the State Police to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the regulations and procedures pertaining to the West Virginia DNA databank.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

            That article 6, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 6. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC SAFETY TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-6-1. State Police.

            The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 25, 2014, authorized under the authority of section twenty-four, article two, chapter fifteen, of this code, modified by the State Police to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 30, 2014, relating to the State Police (regulations and procedures pertaining to the West Virginia DNA databank, 81 CSR 9), is authorized.

            NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Police to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the regulations and procedures pertaining to the West Virginia DNA Databank.

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