WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE 2025 REGULAR SESSION Introduced House Bill 2229 By Delegate D. Smith [Introduced ; referredto the Committee on the ] A BILL to amend and reenact §64-2-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Office of Technology to promulgate a legislative rule relating to telecommunications payments made by state spending units. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: ## ARTICLE 2. Authorization for Department of administration to promulgate legislative rules. The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 29, 2024, authorized under the authority of §5A-6-4 of this code, modified by the Office of Technology to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 11, 2024, relating to the Office of Technology (telecommunications payments made by state spending units, 163 CSR 05), is authorized. NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Office of Technology to promulgate a legislative rule relating to telecommunications payments made by state spending units. This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.