Bill Text: WV SB153 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Department of Agriculture rule relating to livestock care standards

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-02 - Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 159 [SB153 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2016-SB153-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia Legislature

2016 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 153

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced January 13, 2016;
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend and reenact article 9, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to livestock care standards.

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. Department of Agriculture.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 31, 2015, authorized under the authority of section four, article one-c, chapter nineteen, of this code, modified by the Department of Agriculture to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 5, 2015, relating to the Department of Agriculture (livestock care standards, 61 CSR 31), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Livestock Care Standards.

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