Senate Bill No. 227

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Boley,

Buckalew, Grubb and Macnaughtan)


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[Introduced January 29, 1996; referred to the

Committee on Finance;

and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend article six, 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 four, relating to authorizing the state police to promulgate legislative rules relating to the West Virginia DNA databank.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article six, 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 four, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY

AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC SAFETY TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-6-4. State police.

The legislative rules filed in the state register on the ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, authorized under the authority of section twenty-four-a, article two, chapter fifteen, of this code, modified by the state police to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, relating to the state police (West Virginia DNA databank, 81 CSR 9), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Police to promulgate legislative rules relating to the West Virginia DNA databank.

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