Bill-Health, Board & Care

H. B. 2366


(By Delegate Gallagher)

[Introduced March 1, 1993; referred to the

Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary.]



A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article five, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the department of health and human resources to promulgate legislative rules relating to residential board and care homes.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section one, article five, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, 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.

(a) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety, modified by the secretary of 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 twenty- fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety, relating to the secretary of the department of health and human resources(implementation of omnibus health care act), are authorized.
(b) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety, modified by the secretary of 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 twenty- fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety, relating to the secretary of the department of health and human resources (implementation of omnibus health care act payment provisions), are authorized.
(c) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two, 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 twenty-seventh day of January one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, relating to the department of health and human resources (residential board and care homes), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate legislative rules relating to residential board and care homes.

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