Senate Bill No. 267

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Bowman and Boley)

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[Introduced January 28, 1999; 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-nine, relating to authorizing the board of acupuncture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to continuing education requirements.

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-nine, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-29. Board of acupuncture
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The legislative rule filed in the state register on the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, under the authority of section seven, article thirty-six, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the board of acupuncture
to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the sixteenth\ day of DecemberJanuary, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eightnine, relating to the board of acupuncture (continuing education requirements , 32 CSR 9), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Acupuncture
to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Continuing Education Requirements .

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