H. B. 2662

(By Delegates Poore, Marcum, Fleischauer, Frich, Eldridge, and Sobonya.)
          [Introduced February 25, 2013; referred to the
          Committee on 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 Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the protocol for law enforcement response to stalking.
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. Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction.
     The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the sixteenth day of August, two thousand twelve, authorized under the authority of section nine-a, article two, chapter sixty-one, of this code, modified by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on the fifth day of December, two thousand twelve, relating to the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction (protocol for law enforcement response to stalking, 149 CSR 7 ), is authorized.

     NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Protocol for Law Enforcement Response to Stalking.

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