Senate Bill No. 357
(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 legal standards of nursing practice for the
licensed practical nurse.
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
(legal standards of nursing practice for the licensed practical nurse, 10 CSR 3), 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 Legal
Standards of Nursing Practice for the Licensed
Practical Nurse.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.