ENROLLED

Senate Bill No. 398

(By Senators Bowman, Ball, Dawson,

Kessler, McCabe, Minard, Plymale, Redd,

Walker, Wooton, Boley and Minear)

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[Passed March 6, 2000; in effect ninety days from passage.]

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AN ACT 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.

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 and 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 division 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 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, two thousand one, 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 two thousand.