Bill-Juvenile 101CSR1
H. B. 2641
(By Delegates Mahan, Cann, Kominar and Faircloth)

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

A BILL to amend article six, 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 four, relating to authorizing the juvenile facilities standards commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to minimum standards for the structure, operation and maintenance of juvenile detention and correctional facilities.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article six, 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 four, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS AND
PUBLIC SAFETY TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-6-4. Juvenile facilities standards commission.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-sixth day of July, two thousand two, under the authority of section nine-a, article twenty, chapter thirty-one, of this code, modified by the juvenile facilities standards commission to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the tenth day of January, two thousand three, relating to the juvenile facilities standards commission (minimum standards for structure, operation and maintenance of juvenile detention and correctional facilities, 101 CSR 1), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Juvenile Facilities Standards Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Minimum Standards for the Structure, Operation and Maintenance of Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities.

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