Bill Text: WV SB146 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DHHR rule relating to client rights at state-operated mental health facilities

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-11 - To Judiciary [SB146 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2021-SB146-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2021 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 146

By Senator Sypolt

[Introduced February 11, 2021; referred
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 client rights at state-operated mental health facilities.

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 August 26, 2020, authorized under the authority of §27-5-9(g) 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 9, 2020, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (client rights at state-operated mental health facilities, 64 CSR 59), 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 client rights at state-operated mental health facilities.

 

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.