Senate Bill No. 287

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Minard, Snyder, Unger and Minear)

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[Introduced March 2, 2001; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section seven, article nine, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the protocol for law enforcement response to domestic violence.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section seven, article nine, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-7. Governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction.

(a) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the fourth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, authorized under the authority of section three, article twenty-nine, chapter thirty of this code, modified by the governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand, relating to the governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction (law enforcement training standards, 149 CSR 2), is authorized.

(b) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the sixteenth day of August, two thousand, authorized under the authority of section nine, article two-a, chapter forty-eight of this code, relating to the governor's committee on crime, delinquency and correction (protocol for law enforcement response to domestic violence, 149 CSR 3), is authorized.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Protocol for Law Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence.


Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.