19 CSR 8
H. B. 2224


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

[Introduced February 12, 2009; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization 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 Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to limited prescriptive authority for nurses in advanced practice.

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 Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first day of August, two thousand eight, authorized under the authority of section fifteen-a, article seven, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twentieth day of January, two thousand nine, relating to the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses (limited prescriptive authority for nurses in advanced practice, 19 CSR 8), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Limited Prescriptive Authority for Nurses in Advanced Practice.

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