West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4051

BY Delegate Smith

[Introduced January 10, 2024; Referred

to 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 to promulgate a legislative rule relating to newborn screening system.

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.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on February 16, 2023, authorized under the authority of §16-22-3 of this code, modified by the Department of Health to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on August 22, 2023, relating to the Department of Health (newborn screening system, 64 CSR 91), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to newborn screening system.

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