H. B. 4178


(By Delegates Hunt, Linch, Compton,

Jenkins, Faircloth and Riggs)


[Introduced January 30, 1998; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary .]



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 division of labor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia occupational safety and health act.

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. Division of labor.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, under the authority of section six, article three-a, chapter twenty-one, of this code, modified by the division of labor to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to the division of labor (West Virginia occupational safety and health act
, 42 CSR 15), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Labor to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Act
.

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