H. B. 4189


(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 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 twenty, relating to authorizing the board of occupational therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to administrative rules of 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 twenty, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-29. Board of occupational therapy.

The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, authorized under the authority of section six, article twenty-eight, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the board of occupational therapy to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to the board of occupational therapy (administrative rules of the board of occupational therapy, 13 CSR 1), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Occupational Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Administrative Rules of the Board.

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