Senate Bill No. 329

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Bowman, Macnaughtan ,

Boley and Buckalew)

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[Introduced January 30, 1998; referred to the

Committee on Health and Human Resources;

and then 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 board of examiners in optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to rules for expanded prescriptive authority.

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. Board of examiners in optometry.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, under the authority of sections two-a and two-b, article eight, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the board of examiners in optometry 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 board of examiners in optometry (rules for expanded prescriptive authority, 14 CSR 2), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Examiners in Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Rules for Expanded Prescriptive Authority.

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