WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2020 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4292

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 14, 2020; Referred

to the Committee on Health and Human Resources 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 Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to critical access hospitals.

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. Health Care Authority.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 16, 2019, authorized under the authority of §16-5B-14(d) of this code, modified by the Health Care Authority to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 22, 2019, relating to the Health Care Authority (critical access hospitals, 65 CSR 09), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to critical access hospitals.

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