Senate Bill No. 369

(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 osteopathy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing procedures for osteopathic physicians.

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 osteopathy.

The legislative rule filed in the state register on the seventh day of August, two thousand, under the authority of section four, article one, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the board of osteopathy to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-second day of September, two thousand, relating to the board of osteopathy (licensing procedures, osteopathic physicians, 24 CSR 1), is authorized.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the
Board of Osteopathy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Licensing Procedures for Osteopathic Physicians.

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