WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE 2025 REGULAR SESSION Introduced Senate Bill 409 By Senator Woodrum [Introduced February 13, 2025; referredto 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 Hope Scholarship Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Hope Scholarship Program. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: ## ARTICLE 9. Authorization for miscellaneous boards and agencies to promulgate legislative rules. The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 9, 2024, authorized under the authority of §18-31-9 of this code, modified by the Hope Scholarship Board to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 20, 2024, relating to the Hope Scholarship Board (Hope Scholarship Program, 112 CSR 18), is authorized. NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Hope Scholarship Board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Hope Scholarship Program. This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.