Bill Text: WV SB387 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Board of Occupational Therapy rule relating to competency standards for advanced practice by occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-25 - Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 369 [SB387 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2025-SB387-Introduced.html

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 387

By Senator Woodrum

[Introduced February 13, 2025; referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Board of Occupational Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to competency standards for advanced practice by occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

 

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

§64-9-1. Board of Occupational Therapy.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on June 4, 2024, authorized under the authority of §30-28-7 of this code, modified by the Board of Occupational Therapy to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on August 29, 2024, relating to the Board of Occupational Therapy (competency standards for advanced practice by occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants, 13 CSR 05), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Occupational Therapy to promulgate a legislative rule relating to competency standards for advanced practice by occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants.

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