H. B. 4256
(By Delegates Kuhn, Varner, Prunty, Flanigan, Manchin, Yeager,
and Border)
[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization]
[Introduced January 25, 2002]
A BILL 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 until the
first day of July, two thousand two to permit a review of their
functions to be undertaken by the joint committee on government
operations as part of the full performance evaluation of the
department of health and human resources scheduled to continue
during the interim of the Legislature in the year two thousand
one. 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.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.