WEST virginia legislature

2021 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2427

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 behavioral health centers licensure.

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 25, 2020, authorized under the authority of §27-9-1 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 16, 2020, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (behavioral health centers licensure, 64 CSR 11), 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 behavioral health centers licensure.

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