Bill Text: WV HB2242 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to vital statistics

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-21 - Markup Discussion [HB2242 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2025-HB2242-Introduced.html

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West Virginia Legislature

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2242

 

By Delegate D. Smith

[Introduced ; referred

to the Committee on  ]

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 to promulgate a legislative rule relating to vital statistics.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 5. Authorization for Department of health to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-5-1. Department of Health.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on September 3, 2024, authorized under the authority of §16-5-3 of this code, modified by the Department of Health to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 25, 2024, relating to the Department of Health (vital statistics, 64 CSR 32), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to vital statistics.

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