House 4225

West Virginia Legislature

2026 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4225

BY Delegate D. Smith

Introduced; referred

 to the Committee on

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5B-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Office of Inspector General 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 5B. Authorization for OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL to promulgate legislative rules.

§64- 5B - 1. Office of Inspector General.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 25, 2025, authorized under the authority of §16B-10-11 of this code, relating to the Office of Inspector General (delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel, 71 CSR 17), is authorized with the following amendment:

On page 3, subsection 2.14 by striking the period inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following, "this includes a dial-up insulin pen."

And,

On page 13, subsection 9.2, following the period by inserting the following "Selecting or setting the amount on a dial-up insulin pen to an amount prescribed is ministerial in nature and is not deemed an exercise of a clinical or judgment decision-making."

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Office of Inspector General 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.