West Virginia Legislature
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 2256
BY Delegate D. Smith
[Introduced ; referred
to the Committee on the ]
A BILL to amend and reenact §64-6-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sexual assault forensic examinations.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
## ARTICLE 6. Authorization for Department of Homeland Security to promulgate legislative rules.
The legislative rule filed in the State Register on September 9, 2024, authorized under the authority of §15-9B-4 of this code, modified by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 20, 2024, relating to the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction (sexual assault forensic examinations, 149 CSR 11), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency, and Correction to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sexual assault forensic examinations.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.