Bill Text: WV HB2696 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia apiary rule

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-01-25 - To House Judiciary [HB2696 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2023-HB2696-Introduced.html

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West Virginia Legislature

2023 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2696

BY Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 17, 2023; Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Natural 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 Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia apiary rule.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 9. Authorization for Department of AGRICULTURE to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-9-1. Department of Agriculture.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 18, 2022, authorized under the authority of §19-13-4 of this code, modified by the Department of Agriculture to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 3, 2022, relating to the Department of Agriculture (West Virginia apiary rule, 61 CSR 02), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to West Virginia apiary rule.

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