153 CSR 20

H. B. 2685

(By Delegates Brown, Miley, Burdiss,

Talbott and Overington)


[Introduced January 29, 2007; referred to the

Committee on the

Judiciary.]



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 procedures for the recount of elections results.

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-eighth day of July, two thousand six, authorized under the authority of section five, article one-A, chapter three, 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 twenty-second day of December, two thousand six, relating to the Secretary of State (procedures for recount of elections results, 153 CSR 20), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Procedures for the Recount of Elections Results.

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