West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4114

BY Delegate Smith

[Introduced January 10, 2024; referred to

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources then the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the West Virginia Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing to pesticide businesses.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 9. Authorization for miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-9-1. West Virginia Department of Agriculture.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 28, 2023, authorized under the authority of §19-16A-4 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Department of Agriculture to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 26, 2023, relating to the West Virginia Department of Agriculture (licensing to pesticide businesses, 61 CSR 12B), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensing to pesticide businesses.

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