Senate Bill No. 272
(By Senators Ross, Minard,
Snyder, Boley and Minear)
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[Introduced January 23, 2003; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources;
and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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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
two, relating to authorizing the department of health and
human resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to
the nurse aid abuse registry.
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 two, to
read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-5-2. Department of health and human resources.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the
eighteenth day of July, two thousand two, under the authority of
section two, article six, chapter nine, of this code, modified by
the department of health and human resources to meet the objections
of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the
state register on the eleventh day of December, two thousand two,
relating to the department of health and human resources (nurse aid
abuse registry, 69 CSR 6), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department
of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule
relating to the Nurse Aid Abuse Registry.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.