Senate Bill No. 542

(By Senators Plymale, Edgell, Bailey, Green, Hunter, Oliverio, Stollings, Wells, White, Boley, Guills and Hall)

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[Originating in the Committee on Education;


reported February 9, 2007.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact §18B-17-2 and §18B-17-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to authorizing rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission and the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education regarding the West Virginia Higher Education Grant Program and the Workforce Development Initiative Program.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18B-17-2 and §18B-17-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 17. LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§18B-17-2. Authorizing rules of Higher Education Policy Commission.

(a) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the fifteenth day of October, two thousand four, relating to the Higher Education Policy Commission (Underwood-Smith Teacher Scholarship Program rule) is authorized.
(b) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the fifteenth day of October, two thousand four, relating to the Higher Education Policy Commission (West Virginia Engineering, Science and Technology Scholarship Program rule) is authorized.
(c) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the fifteenth day of October, two thousand four, relating to the Higher Education Policy Commission (Medical Education Fee and Medical Student Loan Program rule) is authorized.
(d) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the twenty-seventh day of October, two thousand five, relating to the Higher Education Policy Commission (Authorization of degree- granting institutions) is authorized.
(e) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the twenty-third day of August, two thousand six, relating to the Higher Education Policy Commission (West Virginia Higher Education Grant Program) is authorized.
§18B-17-3. Authorizing rule of the Council for Community and Technical College Education.
(a) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the twenty-ninth day of September, two thousand four, relating to the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education (performance indicators rule) is authorized.
(b) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the thirteenth day of October, two thousand five, relating to the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education (Authorization of degree-granting institutions) is authorized.
(c) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the thirtieth day of October, two thousand six, relating to the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education (Workforce Development Initiative Program) is authorized.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize rules of the Higher Education Policy Commission and the Council for Community and Technical College Education.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.)