Bill-Human, Employee 77CSR7
H. B. 4209

(By Delegates Mahan, Wills, Cann, Kominar,

Faircloth and Riggs)

[Introduced January 25, 2002; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary.]




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 definition of employee 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 (definition of employee under the West Virginia human rights act, 77 CSR 7), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Human Rights Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Definition of Employee under the West Virginia Human Rights Act.

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