Bill Text: WV SB147 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DHHR rule relating to delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-11 - To Judiciary [SB147 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2021-SB147-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2021 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 147

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 delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel.

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 21, 2020, authorized under the authority of §16-5O-11 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 16, 2020, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel, 64 CSR 60), 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 delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel.

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