Senate Bill No. 200

(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 the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend article nine, 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 eight, relating to authorizing the nursing home administrators licensing board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the board.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article nine, 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 eight, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-8. Nursing home administrators licensing board .
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six, under the authority of section seven, article twenty-five, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the nursing home administrators licensing board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six, relating to the nursing home administrators licensing board (rules of the nursing home administrators licensing board , 21 CSR 1), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Board\.

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