WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2017 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 126

BY Senator Maynard

[Introduced February 8, 2017; referred

to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to certificate of need.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §64-5-1 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. Health Care Authority.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 23, 2016, authorized under the authority of section four, article two-d, chapter sixteen of this code, modified by the Health Care Authority to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 19, 2016, relating to the Health Care Authority (Certificate of Need, 65 CSR 32), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Certificate of Need.

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