Senate Bill No. 413
(By Senators Bowman, Bailey, Ball, Kessler, Plymale, White,
Boley, Buckalew and Minear)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported February 5, 1998.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section one-a, article two, chapter
nine of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to continuing the
department of health and human resources; and providing for
the continuation of the division of human services and its
statutory functions within that department.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one-a, article two, chapter nine of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended an reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES, AND OFFICE
OF COMMISSIONER OF HUMAN SERVICES; POWERS, DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES GENERALLY.
§9-2-1a. Department of welfare renamed department of human
services; continuation of the department of health and human resources and the division of human services.
The state department of welfare, created pursuant to the
provisions of chapter nine of this code, is hereby continued as
an official department of the state of West Virginia, but
effective the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred
eighty-three, its name shall be the division of human services.
All references in the code to the department of welfare shall
mean the division of human services, and all references to the
commissioner of the department of welfare shall mean the
commissioner of the division of human services and for all other
legal purposes the department of welfare shall continue as the
division of human services.
The department of health and human resources and the
division of human services within that department shall be
charged with the administration of this chapter. The department
of health and human resources shall continue to exist and the
division of human services shall continue to exist within the
department of health and human resources until the first day of
July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight one thousand nine
hundred ninety-nine, to permit a review of their functions to be
undertaken by the joint committee on government operations as
part of the full performance evaluation of the department of
health and human resources scheduled to continue during the
interim of the Legislature in the year one thousand nine hundred
ninety-seven one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to continue the
Department of Health and Human Resources until July 1, 1999,
pursuant to the provisions of the West Virginia Sunset Law.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.
This bill is recommended by the Joint Committee on
Government Operations for passage during the 1998 Regular Session
of the Legislature.)