WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 20

By Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 10, 2024; referred

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 Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 5. Authorization for the Department of helath and human resources to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-5-1. Department of Health.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 13, 2023, authorized under the authority of §16-5B-8 of this code, modified by the Department of Health to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 7, 2023, relating to the Department of Health (hospital licensure, 64 CSR 12), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.