Senate Bill No. 304
(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 five, 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 two, relating to authorizing the health care authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to bench-marking and discount contracts.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article five, 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 two, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-5-2. Health care authority .
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, under the authority of sections eight and twenty, article twenty-nine-b, chapter sixteen, of this code, modified by the health care authority to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, relating to the health care authority (bench-marking and discount contracts , 65 CSR 26), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Bench-marking and Discount Contracts .

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