Bill-Health 64CSR89
H. B. 2626
(By Delegates Mahan, Cann, Kominar and Faircloth)

[Introduced January 24, 2003; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization then the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend article five, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section two, relating to authorizing the division of health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the uniform credentialing of health care practitioners.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article five, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section two, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-5-2. Division of health.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the eighteenth day of July, two thousand two, under the authority of section two, article one-a, 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 thirteenth day of January, two thousand three, relating to the division of health (uniform credentialing of health care practitioners, 64 CSR 89), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Uniform Credentialing of Health Care Practitioners.

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