Bill Text: WV HB4227 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Department of Health and Human Resources, pilot program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-24 - To House Judiciary [HB4227 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2020-HB4227-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 4227

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 14, 2020; Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then 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 pilot program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance.

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 September 4, 2019, authorized under the authority of §9-3-6(n) of this code, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (pilot program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance, 78 CSR 26), 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 pilot program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance.

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