64 CSR 76
Senate Bill No. 196

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and Facemyer)

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[Introduced February 12, 2009; 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 West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to tuberculosis testing, control treatment and commitment.

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 August, two thousand eight, authorized under the authority of section nine, article three-d, 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 twenty-seventh day of October, two thousand eight, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (tuberculosis testing, control treatment and commitment, 64 CSR 76), 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 Tuberculosis Testing, Control Treatment and Commitment.

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