Bill Text: WV SB179 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DHHR rule relating to drug screening of applicants for cash assistance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-25 - Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 165 [SB179 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2018-SB179-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2018 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 179

By Senator Maynard

[Introduced January 11, 2018; Referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on 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 and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to pilot program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance.

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 and Human Resources.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 28, 2017, authorized under the authority of §9-3-6 of this code, modified by the Department of Health and Human Resources to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 11, 2017, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (pilot program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance, 78 CSR 26), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to pilot program for drug screening of applicants for cash assistance.

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