West Virginia Senate Bill 156 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-13 - To Health and Human Resources
Pending: Senate Health and Human Resources Committee

The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Bureau for Public Health to conduct a public health impact statement assessing the health impact of any new air or water rule, or modification of an existing air or water rule, proposed by the Department of Environmental Protection to insure that no air or water rule is promulgated without substantiating independent medical or scientific evidence that there is no detrimental public health impact from the rule. The bill also requires that the findings in the impact statement be incorporated into the proposed rule.

Requiring Commissioner of Public Health assess health impact of certain rules proposed by DEP

Sen. Dan Foster [D]

Sen. Randy White [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-13		To Health and Human Resources
2010-01-13		To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2010-01-13		Introduced in Senate
2010-01-13		To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2010-01-13		Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	6	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	1	3	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=156&year=2010&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill