Senate Bill No. 357
(By Senators Ross, Minard,
Snyder, Unger, Boley and Minear)
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[Introduced January 30, 2004; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the division of health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to assisted living residences.

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. Division of health.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-fourth day of July, two thousand three, authorized under the authority of section five, article five-d, chapter sixteen, of this code, modified by the division of health to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the eighth day of December, two thousand three, relating to the division of health (assisted living residences, 64 CSR 14), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Assisted Living Residences.

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