2026 Regular Session
Link to Bill History on Legacy Website (Click Here)Summary: Relating to authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to clinical laboratory practitioner licensure.
PDF: hb4219 intr.pdf
DOCX: HB4219 INTR.docx
West Virginia Legislature
2026 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill
BY Delegate D. Smith
[Introduced on; Referred
to the Committee on]
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 to promulgate a legislative rule relating to clinical laboratory practitioner licensure.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. Authorization for Department of health to promulgate legislative rules.
§64-5-1. Department of Health.
The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 24, 2025, authorized under the authority of §16-1-4 of this code, modified by the Department of Health to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 17, 2025, relating to the Department of Health (clinical laboratory practitioner licensure, 64 CSR 57), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to clinical laboratory practitioner licensure.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.