Bill Text: WV SB33 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DHHR rule relating to medication-assisted treatment and office-based medication-assisted treatment

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-17 - Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 17 [SB33 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2024-SB33-Introduced.html

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West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 33

By Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 10, 2024; referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medication-assisted treatment and office-based, medication-assisted treatment.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 5. Authorization for Department of Health and human resources to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-5-1. Department of Health and Human Resources.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on February 16, 2023, authorized under the authority of §16-5Y-13 of this code, modified by the Department of Health and Human Resources to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on August 21, 2023, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (medication assisted treatment and office based medication-assisted treatment, 69 CSR 12), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medication assisted treatment and office based medication-assisted treatment.

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