Bill Text: WV HB4299 | 2026 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Board of Optometry.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced) 2026-01-22 - To House Judiciary [HB4299 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2026-HB4299-Introduced.html
West Virginia Legislature
2026 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4299
BY Delegate D. Smith
[Introduced; referred
to the Committee on.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Board of Optometry.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 9. Authorization for miscellanous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules.
§64-9-1. Board of Optometry.
The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 23, 2025, authorized under the authority of §30-8-6 of this code, modified by the Board of Optometry to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 18, 2025, relating to the Board of Optometry (the Board of Optometry, 14 CSR 01), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Optometry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Board of Optometry.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
