Senate Bill No. 355

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

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[Introduced March 2, 2001; 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 seventeen, relating to authorizing the board of examiners for licensed practical nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to policies and procedures for development and maintenance of educational programs in practical nursing.

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 seventeen, to read as follows:

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

§64-9-17. Board of examiners for licensed practical nurses.

The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-first day of March, two thousand, under the authority of section five, article seven-a, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the board of examiners for licensed practical nurses to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of April, two thousand, relating to the board of examiners for licensed practical nurses
(policies and procedures for development and maintenance of educational programs in practical nursing, 10 CSR 1), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Examiners for Licensed Practical Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Policies and Procedures for Development and Maintenance of Educational Programs in Practical Nursing.


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