Senate Bill No. 358
(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 continuing competence.
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
(continuing competence, 10 CSR 6), 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 Continuing
Competence.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.