Senate Bill No. 159

(By Senator Snyder)

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[Introduced January 8, 2014; referred 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 Bureau for Child Support Enforcement to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the bureau.

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 HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-5-1. Bureau for Child Support Enforcement.

    The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 29, 2013, authorized under the authority of section one hundred five, article eighteen, chapter forty-eight of this code, modified by the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 18, 2013, relating to the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement (the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement, 97 CSR 1), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Bureau.

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