Bill-LPN 10CSR6
H. B. 2696

(By Delegates Mahan, Wills, Cann, Kominar,
Faircloth and Riggs)

[Introduced March 2, 2001; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization then the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend article nine, 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 seventeen, relating to authorizing the board of examiners for licensed practical nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing competence.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article nine, 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 seventeen, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-17. Board of examiners for licensed practical nurses.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-first day of March, two thousand, under the authority of section five, article seven-a, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the board of examiners for licensed practical nurses to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of April, two thousand, relating to the board of examiners for licensed practical nurses (continuing competence, 10 CSR 6), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Examiners for Licensed Practical Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Continuing Competence.

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