24 CSR 7

Senate Bill No. 295

(By Senator Snyder)

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[Introduced February 20, 2013; 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 9, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to practitioner requirements for controlled substances licensure; and accessing the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program database.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That article 9, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-1. Board of Osteopathic Medicine.

    The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the twenty-eighth day of August, two thousand twelve, authorized under the authority of section five-a, article nine, chapter sixty-a, of this code, modified by the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on the twelfth day of December, two thousand twelve, relating to the Board of Osteopathic Medicine (practitioner requirements for controlled substances licensure and accessing the West Virginia controlled substances monitoring program database, 24 CSR 7), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Practitioner Requirements for Controlled Substances Licensure and Accessing the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program Database.

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