West Virginia House Bill 2337 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-08 - To House Health and Human Resources
Pending: House Health & Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to. require the Commissioner of Bureau for Public Health to conduct a public health impact statement assessing the health impact of any new air or water rule, or modification of an existing air or water rule, proposed by the Department of Environmental Protection to ensure that no air or water rule is promulgated without substantiating independent medical or scientific evidence that there is no detrimental public health impact from the rule. The bill also requires that the findings in the impact statement be incorporated into the proposed rule.

Assessing the health impact of any new, or modification to, rule proposed by the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection

Del. Barbara Fleischauer [D]

Del. Rodney Pyles [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-08	House	To House Health and Human Resources
2020-01-08	House	Introduced in House
2020-01-08	House	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2020-01-08	House	Filed for introduction

HB2337 (Carry Over) 2019-01-11 - To House Health and Human Resources

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	6	Amended Code	Citation Text
22	1	3	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2337&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2337%20intr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2337