64 CSR 85

Senate Bill No. 344

(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 ; 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 Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Alzheimer's/dementia special care units and programs.

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-fifth day of July, two thousand five, authorized under the authority of section five, article five-r, 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 (Alzheimer's/dementia special care units and programs, 64 CSR 85), 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 Alzheimer's/dementia Special Care Units and Programs.

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