WEST virginia legislature

2017 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2273

By Delegate Sobonya

[Introduced February 9, 2017; referred to the committee on Health and Human Resources then 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 Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Licensing Procedures for Osteopathic Physicians.

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 Osteopathic Medicine.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 26, 2016, authorized under the authority of section three, article three-e, chapter thirty of this code, modified by the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 29, 2016, relating to the Board of Osteopathic Medicine (Licensing Procedures for Osteopathic Physicians, 24 CSR 01), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Licensing Procedures for Osteopathic Physicians.

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