64 CSR 13
Senate Bill No. 273

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger and Boley)

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[Introduced January 26, 2007; 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 Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to nursing home licensure.

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-eighth day of July, two thousand six, authorized under the authority of section six, 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 nineteenth day of December, two thousand six, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (nursing home licensure, 64 CSR 13), 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 Nursing Home Licensure.

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