64 CSR 14

Senate Bill No. 343

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 27, 2006; referred to the

Committee on Health and Human Resources ;

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 Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to assisted living residences.

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 twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand five, authorized under the authority of section five, article five-d, 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 twenty-first day of December, two thousand five, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (assisted living residences, 64 CSR 14), 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 Assisted Living Residences.

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