Senate Bill No. 306
(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 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 human rights commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the definition of employer under the West Virginia human rights act.

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.

§64-9-20. Human rights commission.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the thirtieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, under the authority of section eight, article eleven, chapter five, of this code, modified by the human rights commission to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to the human rights commission (definition of employer under the West Virginia human rights act, 77 CSR 9), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Human Rights Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Definition of Employer Under the West Virginia Human Rights Act.

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