Bill-Optometry 14CSR1
H. B. 4224


(By Delegates Mahan, Wills, Cann, Kominar,

Faircloth and Riggs)


[Introduced January 25, 2002; referred to the

Committee on Government Organization then the Judiciary.]


A BILL to amend and reenact section fifteen, article nine, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the board of optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the board.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section fifteen, article nine, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-15. Board of optometry.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the fifteenth eighteenth day of August July, two thousand one, under the authority of section three, article eight, chapter thirty of this code, modified by the board of optometry to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-seventh nineteenth day of November, two thousand one, relating to the board of optometry (rules of the board, 14 CSR 1), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Board.

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