64 CSR 12
H. B. 4200

(By Delegates Mahan, Palumbo, Cann, Pino, Armstead and


Overington)



[Introduced January 27, 2006; referred to the Committee on

Finance then the Judiciary.]







A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure.

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. Department of Health and Human Resources.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the nineteenth day of July, two thousand five, authorized under the authority of section eight, article five-b, chapter sixteen, 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 eighteenth day of January, two thousand six, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (hospital licensure, 64 CSR 12), 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 Hospital Licensure.

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