64 CSR 54
Senate Bill No. 401
(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,
Unger, Boley and Facemyer)
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[Introduced January 25, 2008; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization;
and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of
West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the
Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a
legislative rule relating to hospice licensure.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article 5, chapter 64 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. Department of Health and Human Resources.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand seven, authorized under
the authority of section five, article five-I, chapter sixteen, of
this code, modified by the Department of Health and Human Resources
to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review
committee and refiled in the state register on the sixth day of
December, two thousand seven, relating to the Department of Health
and Human Resources (hospice licensure, 64 CSR 54), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department
of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule
relating to Hospice Licensure.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.