H. B. 4144


(By Delegates Hunt, Linch, Compton, Jenkins,

Faircloth and Riggs)

[Introduced January 30, 1998; referred to

the Committee on Finance then the Judiciary .]




A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article two, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the department of administration and the auditor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the state purchasing card program.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section one, article two, 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 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-2-1. Department of administration and the auditor.

The legislative rule filed in the state register on the thirtieth first day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six ninety-seven, under the authority of section ten-a, article three, chapter twelve of this code, modified by the department of administration and the auditor to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the sixth eighteenth day of February September, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to the department of administration and the auditor (state purchasing card program, 148 CSR 7), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Administration and the Auditor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to State Purchasing Card Program.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.