WEST virginia legislature

2017 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 125

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced February 8, 2017; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Hospital Assistance Grant Program.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §64-5-1 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. Health Care Authority.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 24, 2016, authorized under the authority of section eight, article twenty-nine-b, chapter sixteen of this code, modified by the Health Care Authority to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 16, 2016, relating to the Health Care Authority (Hospital Assistance Grant Program, 65 CSR 31), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Hospital Assistance Grant Program.

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