Senate Bill No. 359
(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Minard,
Snyder, Boley and Minear)
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[Introduced January 25, 2002; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend article five, 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 four, relating to authorizing the human rights
commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the
waiver of rights under the West Virginia human rights act.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article five, 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
four, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-5-4. Human rights commission.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand one, under the
authority of section eight, article eleven, chapter five, of
this code, modified by the human rights commission to meet the
objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and
refiled in the state register on the fifteenth day of January,
two thousand two, relating to the human rights commission
(waiver of rights under the West Virginia human rights act, 77
CSR 6), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Human
Rights Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to
the Waiver of Rights under the West Virginia Human Rights Act.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.