158 CSR 12

Senate Bill No. 331

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 27, 2006; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary .]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 2, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Ethics Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to lobbying.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article 2, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-2-1. Ethics Commission.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand five, authorized under the authority of section two, article two, chapter six-b, of this code, modified by the Ethics Commission to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twentieth day of January, two thousand six, relating to the Ethics Commission (lobbying, 158 CSR 12), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Ethics Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Lobbying.

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