Senate Bill No. 192
(By Senator Manchin)
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[Introduced March 1, 1993; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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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 infectious medical waste.
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
twentieth day of March, 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 seventeenth day of
November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two, relating to the
department of health and human resources (infectious medical
waste), are authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the
Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate
legislative rules relating to infectious medical waste.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.