Senate Bill No. 241

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Boley,

Buckalew, Grubb and Macnaughtan)


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[Introduced January 29, 1996; referred to the

Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining;

and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend article ten, 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 three, relating to authorizing the board of miner training, education and certification to promulgate legislative rules relating to governing the safety training program for prospective surface coal miners in West Virginia.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article ten, 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 three, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 10. AUTHORIZATION FOR BUREAU OF COMMERCE TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-10-3. Board of miner training, education and certification.

The legislative rules filed in the state register on the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, authorized under the authority of section six, article seven, chapter twenty-two-a, of this code, relating to the board of miner training, education and certification (governing the safety training program for prospective surface coal miners in West Virginia, 48 CSR 3), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Miner Training, Education and Certification to promulgate legislative rules relating to governing the safety training program for prospective surface coal miners in West Virginia.

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