Senate Bill No. 360

(By Senators Ross, Minard,

Snyder, Unger, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 30, 2004; referred to the

Committee on Health and Human Resources; then to the Committee on Finance; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the division of health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the statewide trauma/emergency care system.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article 5, chapter 64 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-5-1. Division of health.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the thirty-first day of July, two thousand three, authorized under the authority of section nine-c, article seven-b, chapter fifty-five, of this code, modified by the division of health to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the eighth day of December, two thousand three, relating to the division of health (state-wide trauma/emergency care system, 64 CSR 27), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the State-wide Trauma/emergency Care System.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.