Bill Text: WV SB408 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology rule relating to speech-language pathology and audiology assistants

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-25 - Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 369 [SB408 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2025-SB408-Introduced.html

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West Virginia Legislature

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 408

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 Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to promulgate a legislative rule relating to speech-language pathology and audiology 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 Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 22, 2024, authorized under the authority of §30-32-7 of this code, modified by the Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 14, 2024, relating to the Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (speech-language pathology and audiology assistants, 29 CSR 02), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to promulgate a legislative rule relating to speech-language pathology and audiology assistants.

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