WEST virginia legislature

2017 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 149

 By Senator Maynard

[Introduced February 8, 2017; referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to limited prescriptive authority for nurses in advanced practice.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §64-9-1 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 Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 2, 2016, authorized under the authority of section four, article seven, chapter thirty of this code, modified by the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 1, 2016, relating to the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses (Limited Prescriptive Authority for Nurses in Advanced Practice, 19 CSR 08), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Limited Prescriptive Authority for Nurses in Advanced Practice.

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