ENROLLED
H. B. 4256
(By Delegates Kuhn, Varner, Prunty, Flanigan,
Manchin, Yeager and Border)
[Passed February 20, 2002; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact section one-a, article two, chapter
nine of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to continuing the
department of health and human resources.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one-a, article two, chapter nine of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES, AND OFFICE
OF COMMISSIONER OF HUMAN SERVICES; POWERS, DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES GENERALLY.
§9-2-1a. Continuation of the department of health and human
resources.
The department of health and human resources shall be charged with the administration of this chapter. The department
of health and human resources shall continue to exist pursuant to
the provisions of article ten, chapter four of this code, until
the first day of July, two thousand three, unless sooner
terminated, continued or reestablished pursuant to that article.