Senate Bill No. 174

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Macnaughtan ,

Boley and Buckalew)

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[Introduced March 3, 1997; referred to the

Committee on Health and Human Resources;

and then to the Committee on Finance;

and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend article five, 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 two, relating to authorizing the family protection services board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the operation of the board and the licensure and funding of domestic violence programs.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article five, 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 two, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.


§64-5-2. Family protection services board.

The legislative rule filed in the state register on the thirtieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six, under the authority of section thirteen, article two-c, chapter forty-eight, of this code, modified by the family protection services board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to the family protection services board (operation of family protection services board and licensure and funding of domestic violence programs, 191 CSR 1), is authorized.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Family Protection Services Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Operation of the Board and the Licensure and Funding of Domestic Violence Programs .


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