61 CSR 26

Senate Bill No. 302

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 27, 2006; referred to the

Committee on Agriculture; 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 9, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Voluntary Farmland Protection Program.

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. Department of Agriculture.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-second day of December, two thousand five, authorized under the authority of section twenty, article twelve, chapter eight-a, of this code, modified by the Department of Agriculture to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the thirteenth day of January, two thousand six, relating to the Department of Agriculture (Voluntary Farmland Protection Program, 61 CSR 26), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Voluntary Farmland Protection Program.

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