Senate Bill No. 300

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Bowman, Macnaughtan ,

Boley and Buckalew)

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[Introduced January 30, 1998; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section three, article nine, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the protocol for law- enforcement response to domestic violence.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section three, article nine, 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 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-3. Governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction.
(a) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of August July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six ninety-seven, authorized under the authority of section nine, article two-a, chapter forty-eight of this code, modified by the governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-fourth seventh day of October January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six ninety-eight, relating to the governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction (protocol for law-enforcement response to domestic violence, 149 CSR 3), is authorized.

(b) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six, under the authority of section three, article twenty-nine, chapter thirty of this code, modified by the governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to the governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction (basic training academy, annual in-service and biennial in-service training standards, 149 CSR 2), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Protocol for Law-enforcement Response to Domestic Violence.

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