A BILL to amend and reenact section two, article two, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the consolidated public retirement board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to benefit determination and appeal.

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

§64-2-2. Consolidated public retirement board.
(a) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first day of September, two thousand, under the authority of section one, article ten-d, chapter five of this code, modified by the consolidated public retirement board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of November, two thousand, relating to the consolidated public retirement board (general provisions, 162 CSR 1), is authorized.
(b) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first twenty-fifth day of September July, two thousand one, authorized under the authority of section one, article ten-d, chapter five of this code, modified by the consolidated public retirement board to meet the objections of the legislative rule- making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of November, two thousand, relating to the consolidated public retirement board (consolidated public retirement board benefit determination and appeal, 162 CSR 2), is authorized.
(c) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first day of September, two thousand, under the authority of section one, article ten-d, chapter five of this code, modified by the consolidated public retirement board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of November, two thousand, relating to the consolidated public retirement board (teachers' defined contribution system, 162 CSR 3), is authorized.
(d) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first day of September, two thousand, under the authority of section one, article ten-d, chapter five of this code, modified by the consolidated public retirement board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the fourteenth day of December, two thousand, relating to the consolidated public retirement board (teachers' defined benefit plan, 162 CSR 4), is authorized.
(e) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first day of September, two thousand, under the authority of section one, article ten-d, chapter five of this code, modified by the consolidated public retirement board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of November, two thousand, relating to the consolidated public retirement board (public employees retirement system, 162 CSR 5), is authorized.
(f) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first day of September, two thousand, authorized under the authority of section one, article ten-d, chapter five of this code, modified by the consolidated public retirement board to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the fourteenth day of December, two thousand, relating to the consolidated public retirement board (service credit for accrued and unused sick and annual leave, 162 CSR 8), is disapproved.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Consolidated Public Retirement Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Benefit Determination and Appeal.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.