West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 37

BY Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 10, 2024; referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-6-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to protocol for law-enforcement response to domestic violence.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 6. Authorization for Department of homeland security to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-6-1. Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 27, 2023, authorized under the authority of §48-27-1102 of this code, modified by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 4, 2023, relating to the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction (protocol for law enforcement response to domestic violence, 149 CSR 03), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to protocol for law enforcement response to domestic violence.

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