BILL-Miners, First-aid
Senate Bill No. 197
(By Senators Manchin, Anderson, Grubb and Minard)
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[Introduced January 31, 1994; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section eighteen, article three,
chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to
authorizing the office of miners' health, safety and
training to promulgate legislative rules relating to
first-aid training of shaft and slope employees.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section eighteen, article three, 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 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, LABOR AND
ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-3-18. Office of miners' health, safety and training.
(a) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the
thirteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two,
modified by the director of the office of miners' health, safety
and training to meet the objections of the legislative rule-
making review committee and refiled in the state register on the
eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, relating to the director of the office of miners' health,
safety and training (rules and regulations governing the
standards for certification of blasters for surface coal mines
and surface areas of underground coal mines), are authorized.
(b) The legislative rules filed in the state register on the
twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred
ninety-three, modified by the office of miners' health, safety
and training to meet the objections of the legislative
rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on
the second day of November, one thousand nine hundred
ninety-three, relating to the office of miners' health, safety
and training (first-aid training of shaft and/or slope
employees), are authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Office
of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate legislative
rules relating to first-aid training of shaft and slope
employees.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.