Bill Text: WV SB173 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizing DHHR promulgate legislative rule relating to medication administration and performance of health maintenance tasks by approved medication assistive personnel
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-29 - Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 175 [SB173 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2015-SB173-Introduced.html
Senate Bill No. 173
(By Senator Snyder)
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[Introduced January 14, 2015; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact article 5, chapter 64 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 medication administration and performance of health maintenance tasks by approved medication assistive personnel.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
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 July 31, 2014, authorized under the authority of section eleven, article five-o, chapter sixteen of this code, modified by the Department of Health and Human Resources to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 5, 2014, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (medication administration and performance of health maintenance tasks by approved medication assistive personnel, 64 CSR 60), 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 medication administration and performance of health maintenance tasks by approved medication assistive personnel.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
