Bill-Agriculture, 61csr9
H. B. 4175


(By Delegates Mahan, R. Thompson, Cann,

Kominar, Armstead and Faircloth)


[Introduced January 30, 2004; referred to

the Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources then the Judiciary

.]

A BILL to amend and reenact article 9, chapter 64 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the commissioner of agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia seed law .

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article 9, chapter 64 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-1. Commissioner of agriculture.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first day of August, two thousand three, authorized under the authority of section six, article sixteen, chapter nineteen, of this code, modified by the commissioner of agriculture to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-fourth day of November, two thousand three, relating to the commissioner of agriculture (West Virginia seed law, 61 CSR 9), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the West Virginia Seed Law.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.