11 CSR 1B
H. B. 2215


(By Delegates Brown, D. Poling, Talbott, Miley, Overington and Sobonya)

[Introduced February 12, 2009; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources then 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 Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure, disciplinary and complaint procedures; continuing education; and physician assistants.

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. Board of Medicine.

The legislative rule filed in the state register on the eighteenth day of July, two thousand eight, authorized under the authority of section sixteen, article three, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the Board of Medicine to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the nineteenth day of November, two thousand eight, relating to the Board of Medicine (licensure, disciplinary and complaint procedures; continuing education; and physician assistants, 11 CSR 1B), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Licensure, Disciplinary and Complaint Procedures; Continuing Education; and Physician Assistants.

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