24 CSR 2

                        Senate Bill No. 163

(By Senators Minard, Snyder, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and K. Facemyer)

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[Introduced January 18, 2011; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resouces; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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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 Osteopathy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to osteopathic 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 Osteopathy.

    The legislative rule filed in the state register on the thirtieth day of July, two thousand ten, authorized under the authority of section one, article fourteen-a, chapter thirty, of this code, modified by the Board of Osteopathy to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-ninth day of November, two thousand ten, relating to the Board of Osteopathy (osteopathic physician assistants, 24 CSR 2), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Osteopathy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Osteopathic Physician Assistants.

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