153 CSR 30

Senate Bill No. 399

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 30, 2006; referred 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 Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the use of digital signatures, state certificate authority and state repository.

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. Secretary of State.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-first day of June, two thousand five, authorized under the authority of section three, article three, chapter thirty-nine-a, of this code, modified by the Secretary of State to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the tenth day of January, two thousand six, relating to the Secretary of State (use of digital signatures, state certificate authority and state repository, 153 CSR 30), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to the Use of Digital Signatures, State Certificate Authority and State Repository.

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