Senate Bill No. 144

(By Senator Manchin)

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[Introduced March 1, 1993; referred to the

Committee on Pensions; and then to the

Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend article two, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section nine, relating to authorizing the consolidated public retirement board to promulgate legislative rules relating to benefit determination and appeal.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article two, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section nine, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION TO
PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-2-9. Consolidated public retirement board.
The legislative rules filed in the state register on the fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one, modified by the consolidated public retirement board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, relating to the consolidated public retirement board (benefit determination and appeal), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Consolidated Public Retirement Board to promulgate legislative rules relating to benefit determination and appeal.

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