78 CSR 3
H. B. 2657

(By Delegates Brown, Miley, Burdiss,

Talbott and Overington)


[Introduced January 29, 2007; referred to the

Committee on Finance then the Judiciary.]



A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Division of Human Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to minimum licensing requirements for group residential facilities in West Virginia.

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. Division of Human Services.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of July, two thousand six, authorized under the authority of section four, article two-B, chapter forty-nine, of this code, modified by the Division of Human Services to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-second day of December, two thousand six, relating to the Division of Human Services (minimum licensing requirements for group residential facilities in West Virginia, 78 CSR 3), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Human Services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Minimum Licensing Requirements for Group Residential Facilities in West Virginia.

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