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2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers › Article 35. State Recovery and Hope Act › §29-35-1. Short Title; Legislative Findings; Purpose

(a) This article may be known and cited as the Recovery and Hope Act.
(b) The West Virginia Legislature finds that:
(1) The substance use disorder epidemic in the State of West Virginia has created a public health crisis, an economic crisis, and a social services crisis for our state;
(2) The State of West Virginia, through its various governmental branches and state agencies, offers several programs to assist the citizens of West Virginia battling substance use disorder, likewise, there are numerous programs offered by the federal government, local governments, and private entities to combat this epidemic; and
(3) Creation of the State Recovery and Hope Office is necessary to further the positive results of the Jobs and Hope Program implemented to date and to facilitate and coordinate the various programs offered through the State of West Virginia by and with the assistance of the legislative branch, the judicial branch, various federal agencies, local governments, community advocates, and private sector partners related to the prevention, treatment, and reduction of substance use disorder.
(c) It is the purpose of this article to create an office under the Office of the Governor to focus the comprehensive and coordinated statewide approach to provide West Virginians in need of treatment for substance use disorder with the support and assistance necessary to help provide assistance to combat addiction, as well as to assist those in recovery by providing them opportunities to obtain career training and to ultimately secure meaningful employment, thereby further bettering our people, our communities, and economic opportunities in this state. The office created by this article shall utilize the personnel and resources of the Department of Health and Human Resources and relevant agencies thereunder to the greatest extent practicable.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers › Article 35. State Recovery and Hope Act › §29-35-2. State Recovery and Hope Office

(a) The State Recovery and Hope Office is hereby created. The office shall be organized within the Office of the Governor. The office will serve as the coordinating agency of recovery efforts.
(b) The State Recovery and Hope Officer shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(c) The State Recovery and Hope Officer shall be vested with the authority and duties prescribed to the office within this article.
(d) The State Recovery and Hope Officer shall be a person who has:
(1) Managerial and strategic planning experience in matters relating to substance use disorder treatment, recovery, and transition into the workforce; and
(2) Be thoroughly knowledgeable in matters relating to substance use disorder treatment, recovery, and matters relating thereto.
(e) The State Recovery and Hope Office shall be tasked with coordinating efforts toward the provision of needed assistance for those in treatment for substance use disorder, toward transitioning those in recovery with the opportunity to obtain career training, and toward ultimately securing meaningful employment.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers › Article 35. State Recovery and Hope Act › §29-35-4. Employees

(a) The State Recovery and Hope Officer shall have the power to hire, administer, and manage employees, but only to the extent necessary to fulfill the offices responsibilities.
(1) Any and all employees will be exempt from both the classified services category and the classified-exempt services category as set forth in 29-6-4 of this code.
(2) Employee positions are contingent upon the receipt of the necessary federal or state funds, or both.
(3) Any employee hired shall be deemed an at-will employee who may be discharged or released from his or her respective position without cause or reason.
(4) Any employee may participate in the Public Employees Insurance Agency, the Public Employees Retirement System, and workers compensation and unemployment compensation programs, or their equivalents.
(5) Any employees and officers of the State Recovery and Hope Office who are entrusted with funds or property shall execute surety bonds.
(b) The State Recovery and Hope Officer will set appropriate salary rates for any employees equivalent to a competitive wage rate necessary to support a specific mission.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers › Article 36. West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission › §29-36-1. Findings

Findingsthe Legislature finds that:
Over 15 percent of West Virginias population is of Irish descent, which, according to the Irish diplomat Barbara Jones, represents a higher figure than that in Boston or New York City;
The ties that bind Ireland to West Virginia are deep and lasting, reflected on West Virginias map from Ireland to Irish Mountain, from Tyrone to Tralee; and
Irish heritage has been the fortunate lot of many great West Virginians, such as philanthropist Bernard P. McDonough, the inventor Michael Owens, and US Senator John Kenna;
Ireland and West Virginia are attempting to reinvent their economies for success in the twenty-first century; and
West Virginians have both historic and practical reasons to desire the building of firmer commercial links with Ireland.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers › Article 36. West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission › §29-36-2. Establishment of Commission; Composition; Appointments; Vacancies

For these and other reasons, there is hereby established the West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission. The commission shall consist of 9 members, to be appointed as follows:
(a) Two members of the Senate, who shall be appointed by the President of the Senate, shall have knowledge of or current or past involvement in organizations that promote Irish affairs, or shall have interest in the well-being of trade relations between West Virginia and Ireland; and two members of the House of Delegates, who shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, shall have knowledge of or current or past involvement in organizations that promote Irish affairs, or shall have interest in the well-being of trade relations between West Virginia and Ireland. The legislative members of the commission shall serve during the two-year legislative term in which the appointments are made.
(b) Five members of the commission shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall serve for a term of four years. The members thus appointed shall include at least one representative from: a public institution of higher education; the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, or its successor organization; and at least two public members shall represent Irish American communities or interest, neither of whom shall be members of the same political party.
(c) All appointments shall be made no later than July 1, 2023. A vacancy in the membership of the commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment was made.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers › Article 36. West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission › §29-36-3. Compensation; Meetings; Chair; Records; Quorum

(a) Members of the commission shall receive the same compensation authorized by law for members of the Legislature for the interim duties for each day, or portion thereof, the member is engaged in the discharge of official duties. All members shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of official duties, except that mileage shall be reimbursed at the same rate as that authorized for members of the Legislature.
(b) (1) The commission shall meet and hold hearings at the places it designates throughout the State.
(2) The commission shall elect a chair from amongst its members. The chair may appoint from among the commission members subcommittees and subcommittee chairs at their discretion.
(c) The commission shall keep records of all proceedings which shall be public and open to inspection, shall adopt a seal, and shall exercise and perform the duties prescribed by this section.
(d) A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the commission.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers › Article 36. West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission › §29-36-4. Purpose of Commission

The purpose of the West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission shall be to:
(1) Advance bilateral trade and investment between West Virginia and Ireland;
(2) Initiate joint action on policy issues of mutual interest to West Virginia and Ireland;
(3) Promote business and academic exchanges between West Virginia and Ireland;
(4) Encourage mutual economic support between West Virginia and Ireland;
(5) Encourage mutual investment in the infrastructure of West Virginia and Ireland; and
(6) Address such other issues as determined by the Commission.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers › Article 36. West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission › §29-36-5. Reports

The commission shall report its findings, results, and recommendations to the Governor, and the Legislature, within one year of its initial organizational meeting and by February 1st of each succeeding year for the activities of the preceding calendar year. The report shall be in writing and include recommendations as deemed appropriate by the commission to effectuate its purpose, as provided by this section.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers › Article 36. West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission › §29-36-6. Funds

The West Virginia-Ireland Trade Commission shall be authorized to raise funds, through direct solicitation or other fundraising events, alone, or with other groups, and accept gifts, grants, and bequests from individuals, corporations, foundations, governmental agencies, and public and private organizations and institutions, to defray the commissions administrative expenses and to carry out its purposes.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 1. Definitions and Application of Chapter › §29A-1-1. Legislative Findings and Statement of Purpose

The Legislature finds and declares that administrative law and the administrative practice and procedure of the various executive and administrative officers, offices and agencies comprises a body of law and policy which is voluminous, often formulated without adequate public participation and collected and preserved for public knowledge and use in an unacceptable and essentially inaccessible fashion. The Legislature further finds that the delegation of its legislative powers to other departments and agencies of government requires of the Legislature that the rules and regulations of such other departments and agencies, which have the force and effect of law because of their legislative character, should be carefully and extensively reviewed by the Legislature in a manner properly respectful of the separation of powers but in keeping with the legislative force and effect of such rules and regulations. Accordingly the Legislature has and by this chapter intends to fix by law uniform and settled administrative practices and procedures, subject only to enumerated exceptions, for the exercise of executive rule- making authority and for the exercise by executive and administrative officers, offices and agencies of lawfully delegated legislative power, with appropriate legislative review of that exercise of such delegated legislative authority and with established procedures for Legislative Oversight of the exercise of executive rule-making authority.
In that light chapter twenty-nine-a of this code establishes, with enumerated exceptions, procedures for rule making, declaratory rulings by agencies and the conduct of contested administrative cases, together with a plan for the systematic preparation, public consideration, orderly promulgation, preservation and public availability of the body of law, policy and administrative decisions within the purview of this chapter.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 1. Definitions and Application of Chapter › §29A-1-3. Application of Chapter; Limitations

(a) The provisions of this chapter do not apply in any respect whatever to executive orders of the Governor, which orders to the extent otherwise lawful shall be effective according to their terms: Provided, That the executive orders shall be admitted to record in the state register when and to the extent the Governor deems suitable and shall be included therein by the Secretary of State when tendered by the Governor.
(b) Except as to requirements for filing in the state register, and with the Legislature or its rule-making review committee, provided in this chapter or other law, the provisions of this chapter do not apply in any respect whatever to the West Virginia board of probation and parole, the Public Service Commission, the board of public works sitting as such and the secondary schools activities commission: Provided, That rules of such agencies shall be filed in the state register in the form prescribed by this chapter and be effective no sooner than sixty consecutive days after being so filed: Provided, however, That the rules promulgated by the state colleges and universities shall only be filed with the higher education governing boards: Provided further, That such agencies may promulgate emergency rules in conformity with section fifteen, article three of this chapter.
(c) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to rules relating to or contested cases involving the conduct of inmates or other persons admitted to public institutions, the open seasons and the bag, creel, size, age, weight and sex limits with respect to the wildlife in this state, the conduct of persons in military service or the receipt of public assistance. Such rules shall be filed in the state register in the form prescribed by this chapter and be effective upon filing.
(d) Nothing herein shall be construed to affect, limit or expand any express and specific exemption from this chapter contained in any other statute relating to a specific agency, but such exemptions shall be construed and applied in accordance with the provisions of this chapter to effectuate any limitations on such exemptions contained in any such other statute.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 1. Definitions and Application of Chapter › §29A-1-3a. Technical Amendments to a Current Rule

The provisions of this chapter do not apply to purely technical amendments to a current rule, including correcting addresses, phone numbers, punctuation, spelling, code citations or internal citations, numbering, grammatical errors or changes to language to standardize rules generally without affecting the content of any rule. An agency may make these amendments by filing the corrected rule with the Secretary of State's office.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 1. Definitions and Application of Chapter › §29A-1-3b. Void Rules

(a) If an agency ceases to exist, through the operation of law or by statute, any rules adopted or promulgated by the agency are void on the date the agency ceases to exist, unless the agency’s rule-making power and its rules have been transferred to another agency.
(b) Upon repeal or elimination of a statute that provides rule-making authority, any rule adopted or promulgated by the agency pursuant to that statute is void.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 2. State Register › §29A-2-3. Contents of State Register

The Secretary of State shall receive and file in the state register:
(a) Every notice of a proposed rule or a public hearing for the finding of facts or public comment on a proposed rule.
(b) The text of every proposed rule and subsequent proposed amendment thereto and fiscal notes attached thereto.
(c) Every determination of fact or judgment tendered by an agency for inclusion therein and every notice of submission to the Legislature or its rule-making review committee made in conformity with this chapter.
(d) Every executive order tendered by the Governor.
(e) Every notice of and the text of any report or finding of the legislative rule-making review committee and such other material as may be tendered by the clerk or presiding officer of either house of the Legislature for filing in the state register.
(f) Such other material related to administrative procedures and actions as an agency may desire to make a public record or the Secretary of State may deem appropriate, or where required by law.
(g) Notice of and the text of any action by an agency of the Legislature or its committees relative to the process of promulgation of rules tendered to the Secretary of State for inclusion in the register.
(h) Every other paper required by law to be filed in such register or which may be filed therein in order to comply with any other provision of law.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 2. State Register › §29A-2-4. Contents of State Register Deemed a Public Record

Every paper filed in the state register shall be a public record provable and admissible as evidence if otherwise relevant, of which judicial notice may be taken, either under lawful certification or by reason of duplication and distribution as a copy of the state register in accordance with this article.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 2. State Register › §29A-2-5. Agency Rules to Be Filed in State Register; Failure to File

(a) Notwithstanding any filing prior to the effective date of this section, each agency shall hereafter file in the state register a certified copy of all of its lawfully adopted rules which are in force on the date of such filing and all of its proposed rules which have not become effective prior to the date of such filing. All such rules and proposed rules shall be arranged, compiled, numbered and indexed in accordance with the provisions of section six of this article, and shall also include a designation of each rule as either legislative rule, interpretive rule or procedural rule. Any agency desiring to pursue promulgation of a rule proposed prior to the effective date of this section but not then yet effective, shall refile such proposed rule, following the procedure set forth in article three: Provided, That it shall not be necessary for the agency to again hold a public hearing to determine facts or public comment, but in all other respects the procedures provided for the promulgation of rules under this section shall be complied with. On or before January 1, 1983, any other agency required by law to file its rules in the state register in order for such rules to be effective shall resubmit and refile such rules in accordance with this section. If any agency fails to file a certified copy of any rule or proposed rule in accordance with this section on or before January 1, 1983, then such rule or proposed rule not so filed shall be thereafter void and unenforceable and shall be of no further force and effect except as to enforcement of its effective provisions for actions, causes or matters occurring prior to January 1, 1983.
(b) Except for such changes in the designation and numbering of a rule, including numerical references within a rule, as are required to comply with the provisions of section six of this article, no legislative rule filed under the provisions of this section may be amended in any way prior to such filing unless such amendment is made in compliance with the requirements of article three of this chapter.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 2. State Register › §29A-2-7. Publication of State Register

(a) The Legislature intends that the Secretary of State offer to the public access to the State Register and Code of State Rules. The State Register, the Code of State Rules and other documents produced by the Secretary of State's office shall be available in electronic format on the Secretary of State's website.
(b) All materials filed in the State Register shall be indexed as quickly as possible in chronological order of filing with a brief description of the item filed and a columnar cross index to:
(1) Agency;
(2) Code citation to which it relates and by which it is filed in the State Register; and
(3) Other information in the description or cross index as the Secretary of State believes will aid a person in using the index.
(c) The Secretary of State shall post on the website with each update of the Code of State Rules, a copy of the rule monitor and its cross index which shows the rules that have become effective, and a table showing rules which are out for public comment, and agency-approved, modified and emergency rules.
(d) The Secretary of State may propose rules for legislative approval, in accordance with the provisions of article three of this chapter, to change the procedures outlined in this section.
(e) One half of all the fees and amounts collected for the sale of the State Register, the Code of State Rules and other copies or data provided by the Secretary of State shall be deposited in the State General Revenue Fund and one half of the fees in the service fees and collections account established in accordance with subsection (f), section two, article one, chapter fifty-nine of this code for the operations of the office of the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State shall dedicate sufficient resources from that fund or other funds to provide the services required in this article.
(f) A person who is unable to access electronic versions of documents may review the documents at the office of the Secretary of State, or may request a printed copy at a cost which is sufficient, in the judgment of the Secretary of State, to defray the expenses of publication, including labor, paper and postage: Provided, That the Secretary of State may waive the fee.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 2. State Register › §29A-2-9. Making Orders and Records Available

Every agency shall file in the state register all final orders, decisions and opinions in the adjudication of contested cases except those required for good cause to be held confidential and not cited as precedent. Except as otherwise required by statute, matters of official record shall be made available for public inspection pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-1. Rules to Be Promulgated Only in Accordance With This Article

In addition to other rule-making requirements imposed by law and except to the extent specifically exempted by the provisions of this chapter or other applicable law, and except as provided for in article three-a of this chapter, every rule and regulation (including any amendment of or rule to repeal any other rule) shall be promulgated by an agency only in accordance with this article and shall be and remain effective only to the extent that it has been or is promulgated in accordance with this article.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-1a. Filing Proposed Amendments to an Existing Rule; and Repealing an Existing Rule

(a) An agency shall file all sections of the proposed rule when proposing an amendment to an existing rule. The proposed rule shall be accompanied by note of explanation as to the effect of the amendment and its relation to the existing rules.
(b) An agency proposing to repeal a rule, shall file the rule in its entirety with the provisions of the rule struck through. An agency may not repeal a rule by reference in another rule.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-1b. Rules of the Tax Department

Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight, article two of this chapter, the Tax Commissioner may reproduce the same in his state tax bulletin and may, upon request, distribute copies of the proposed or emergency rule after such proposed or emergency rule has been filed in the state register and may charge a reasonable fee in an amount set to recover his cost of duplicating and mailing the same. The moneys so received shall be deposited in the treasury to the credit of the Tax Commissioner's account for printing, office supplies or postage.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-2. Limitations on Authority to Exercise Rule-Making Power

(a) Except when, and to the extent, that this chapter or any other provision of law now or hereafter made expressly exempts an agency, or a particular grant of the rule-making power, from the provisions of this article, every grant of rule-making authority to an executive or administrative officer, office or agency, heretofore provided, shall be construed and applied to be effective only:
(1) If heretofore lawfully exercised in accordance with the prior provisions of this chapter and the resulting rule has not been revoked or invalidated by the provisions hereof or by the agency, or
(2) If exercised in accordance with the provisions hereof.
(b) No executive or administrative agency shall be deemed to have power and authority to promulgate a legislative rule without compliance with this article unless: (1) The provision of this code, heretofore or hereafter enacted, granting such power and authority, expressly exempts its exercise from legislative rule-making review prior to promulgation or (2) the grant of such power and authority is exempted from the application of this chapter by the express provisions of this chapter. To the extent any such grant of power and authority, not so exempt, shall be deemed to exceed the limits and provisions of this article, such power and authority to promulgate legislative rules is hereby revoked.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-3. Rules of Procedure Required

In addition to other rule-making requirements imposed by law:
(a) Each agency shall adopt procedural rules governing the formal and informal procedures prescribed or authorized by this chapter. Procedural rules shall include rules of practice before the agency, together with forms and instructions.
(b) To assist interested persons dealing with it, each agency, shall so far as deemed practicable, supplement its rules or regulations with descriptive statements of its procedures.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-4. Filing of Proposed Legislative Exempt Rules, Procedural Rules and Interpretive Rules

(a) When an agency proposes a legislative exempt rule, procedural rule or an interpretive rule, the agency shall file in the State Register a notice of its action, including the text of the rule as proposed.
(b) All proposed rules filed under subsection (a) of this section shall have a fiscal note attached itemizing the cost of implementing the rules as they relate to this state and to persons affected by the rules. The fiscal note shall include all information included in a fiscal note for either house of the Legislature and a statement of the economic impact of the rule on the state or its residents. The objectives of the rule shall be clearly and separately stated in the fiscal note by the agency issuing the proposed rules. A legislative exempt, procedural or interpretive rule is not void or voidable by virtue of noncompliance with this subsection.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-6. Filing Findings and Determinations for Rules in State Register; Evidence Deemed Public Record

(a) Incident to fixing a date for public comment on a proposed rule, the agency shall promulgate the findings and determinations required as a condition precedent thereto, and state fully and succinctly the reasons therefor and file such findings and determinations in the state register. If the agency amends the proposed rule as a result of the evidence or comment presented pursuant to section five, such amendment shall be filed with a description of any changes and statement listed for the amendment.
(b) The statement of reasons and a transcript of all evidence and public comment received pursuant to notice are public records and shall be carefully preserved by the agency and be open for public inspection and copying for a period of not less than five years from the date of the hearing.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-7. Notice of Hearings

Notices of hearings required by sections five and six of this article shall be filed in the state register not less than thirty nor more than sixty days before the date of such hearing or the last day specified therein for receiving written material. Any hearing may be continued from time to time and place to place by the agency which shall have the effect of extending the last day for receipt of evidence or public comment. Notice of such continuance shall be promptly filed thereafter in the state register.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-8. Adoption of Legislative Exempt, Procedural, and Interpretive Rules

(a) An agency shall consider a legislative exempt, procedural, and interpretive rule for adoption not later than six months after the close of public comment and file a notice of withdrawal or adoption in the State Register within that period. An agency’s failure to file the notice constitutes withdrawal and the Secretary of State shall note the failure in the State Register immediately upon the expiration of the six-month period.
(b) A legislative exempt, procedural, or interpretive rule may be amended by the agency prior to final adoption without further hearing or public comment. The amendment may not change the main purpose of the rule. If the fiscal implications have changed since the rule was proposed, the agency shall attach a new fiscal note to the notice of filing. Upon adoption of the rule, including any amendment, the agency shall file the text of the adopted legislative exempt, procedural, or interpretive rule with its notice of adoption in the State Register and the rule is effective on the date specified in the rule or 30 days after the filing, whichever is later or as specified in this code.
(c) An agency may repeal a legislative exempt, procedural, or interpretive rule by filing a notice of repeal with the Secretary of State.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-9. Proposal of Legislative Rules

When an agency proposes a legislative rule, other than an emergency rule, it shall be deemed to be applying to the Legislature for permission, to be granted by law, to promulgate such rule as approved by the agency for submission to the Legislature or as amended and authorized by the Legislature by law.
An agency proposing a legislative rule, other than an emergency rule, after filing the notice of proposed rulemaking required by the provisions of section five of this article, shall then proceed as in the case of a procedural and interpretive rule to the point of, but not including, final adoption. In lieu of final adoption, the agency shall finally approve the proposed rule, including any amendments, for submission to the Legislature and file such notice of approval in the state register and with the legislative rule-making review committee, within ninety days after the public hearing was held or within ninety days after the end of the public comment period required under section five of this article: Provided, That upon receipt of a written request from an agency, setting forth valid reasons why the agency is unable to file the agency approved rule within the ninety-day time period, the legislative rule-making review committee may grant the agency an extension of time to file the agency approved rule.
Such final agency approval of the rule under this section is deemed to be approval for submission to the Legislature only and does not give any force and effect to the proposed rule. The rule shall have full force and effect only when authority for promulgation of the rule is granted by an act of the Legislature and the rule is promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section thirteen of this article.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-10. Creation of a Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee

(a) There is hereby created a joint committee of the Legislature, known as the legislative rule-making review committee, to review all legislative rules of the several agencies and such other rules as the committee deems appropriate. The committee shall be composed of six members of the Senate, appointed by the President of the Senate, and six members of the House of Delegates, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates. In addition, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates shall be ex officio nonvoting members of the committee and shall designate the cochairmen. Not more than four of the voting members of the committee from each house shall be members of the same political party: Provided, That in the event the membership of a political party is less than fifteen percent in the House of Delegates or Senate, then the membership of that political party from the legislative house with less than fifteen percent membership may be one from that house. The members shall serve until their successors shall have been appointed as heretofore provided. Members of the committee shall receive such compensation and expenses as provided in article two-a, chapter four of this code. Such expenses and all other expenses, including those incurred in the employment of legal, technical, investigative, clerical, stenographic, advisory and other personnel shall be paid from an appropriation to be made expressly for the legislative rule-making review committee, but if no such appropriation be made, such expenses shall be paid from the appropriation under "Account No. 103 for Joint Expenses," but no expense of any kind whatever payable under said Account No. 103 for joint expenses shall be incurred unless first approved by the Joint Committee on Government and Finance. The committee shall meet at any time, both during sessions of the Legislature and in the interim.
(b) The committee may adopt such rules of procedure as it considers necessary for the submission, presentation and consideration of rules.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-13. Adoption of Legislative Rules; Effective Date

(a) Except as the Legislature may by law otherwise provide, within sixty days after the effective date of an act authorizing promulgation of a legislative rule, the agency shall promulgate the rule in conformity with the provisions of law authorizing and directing the promulgation of the rule. In the case of a rule proposed by an agency which is administered by an executive department pursuant to the provisions of article two, chapter five-f of this code, the secretary of the department shall promulgate the rule as authorized by the Legislature. In the case of an agency which is not subject to administration by the secretary of an executive department, the agency which proposed the rule for promulgation shall promulgate the rule as authorized by the Legislature.
(b) A legislative rule authorized by the Legislature is effective upon filing in the State Register, or on the effective date fixed by the authorizing act or, if none is fixed by law, a later date not to exceed ninety days, as fixed by the agency.
(c) The Secretary of State shall note in the State Register the effective date of an authorized and promulgated legislative rule and shall promptly publish the duly promulgated rule in the Code of State Rules maintained by his or her office.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-14. Withdrawal or Modification of Proposed Rules

(a) Any legislative rule proposed by an agency may be withdrawn by the agency any time before passage of a law authorizing or authorizing and directing its promulgation, but no such action shall be construed to affect the validity, force or effect of a law enacted authorizing or authorizing and directing the promulgation of an authorized legislative rule or exercising compliance with such law. The agency shall file a notice of any such action in the state register.
(b) At any time before a proposed legislative rule has been submitted by the legislative rule-making review committee to the Legislature pursuant to the provisions of section twelve of this article, the agency may modify the proposed rule to meet the objections of the committee. The agency shall file in the state register a notice of its modifying action including a copy of the modified rule, but shall not be required to comply with any provisions of this article requiring opportunity for public comment or taking of evidence with respect to such modification. If a legislative rule has been withdrawn, modified and then resubmitted to such committee, the rule shall be considered to have been submitted to such committee on the date of such resubmission.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-16. Legislative Review of Procedural Rules, Interpretive Legislative Rules

(a) The Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee may, with the assistance of the Legislative Auditor's Office, review any procedural rule, interpretive rule or existing legislative rule to determine if the rule is achieving its purpose, and based on its determination, if the rule should be continued, amended or repealed.
(b) Following the review, the Legislative Rule-Making Committee shall make recommendations to the agency or board, which promulgated the rule, and to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-17. Prior Rules

Any rule lawfully promulgated prior to the effective date of this chapter shall remain in full force and effect until:
(1) Such rule is expressly made ineffective by the provisions of this chapter, or
(2) Such rule should expire by reason of failure to refile the same as provided in section five of article two, or expires pursuant to its own terms and provisions lawfully made before the effective date of this section, or
(3) Such rule is repealed by the lawful act of the agency, in conformity with this chapter, or
(4) Such rule is invalidated by an act of the Legislature or the force and effect of another law.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-18. Severability of Legislative Rules

Unless there is a provision in a legislative rule specifying that the provisions thereof shall not be severable, the provisions of every legislative rule, whether enacted before or subsequent to the effective date of this section, shall be severable so that if any provision of any rule section or amendment thereto is held to be unconstitutional or void, the remaining provisions of the rule shall remain valid, unless the court finds the valid provisions are so essentially and inseparably connected with, and so dependent upon, the unconstitutional or void provision that the court cannot presume the Legislature would have enacted the remaining valid provisions without the unconstitutional or void one, or unless the court finds the remaining valid provisions, standing alone, are incomplete and are incapable of being executed in accordance with the legislative intent: Provided, That if any legislative rule has its own severability clause, then that severability clause shall govern and control with respect to that section, in lieu of the provisions of this section. The provisions of this section shall be fully applicable to all future amendments to legislative rules, with like effect as if the provisions of this section were set forth in extenso and every such amendment were reenacted as a part thereof, unless such amendment to the legislative rule contains its own severability clause.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3. Rule Making › §29A-3-20. Executive Review of Agency Rules, Guidelines, Policies and Recommendations

(a) All executive agencies with rule-making authority shall:
(1) Review and evaluate all state rules, guidelines, policies and recommendations under their jurisdiction that have similar federal rules, guidelines, policies and recommendations;
(2) Determine whether the state rules, guidelines, policies and recommendations are more stringent than federal counterparts;
(3) Provide for a comment period for all rules, guidelines, policies and recommendations; and
(4) Submit a report to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance and the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee on or before November 1, 2017, which shall include:
(A) A description of the state rules, guidelines, policies and recommendations that are more stringent than federal counterparts; and
(B) Comments received from the comment period provided for in subdivision (3) of this subsection.
(b) Within four years of the enactment of this law, each executive agency with rule-making authority shall review all of its rules and determine whether the rules should be continued without change, modified or repealed. On or before July 1, 2020, each agency shall submit a report to the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee which includes the following information for each rule under the agency’s jurisdiction:
(1) A description of the rule;
(2) A determination of whether the rule should continue without change, be modified or repealed; and
(3) The reasoning for said determination.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3A. Higher Education Rule Making › §29A-3A-1. Definitions

As used in this article:
(a) "Commission" means the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability;
(b) "Agency", for purposes of this article, means the Higher Education Policy Commission created by 18B-1B-1
et seq
. of this code, the Council for Community and Technical College Education established pursuant to 18B-2B-3 of this code, the School Building Authority established pursuant to 18-9D-1
et seq
. of this code, or any successor board, commission, agency, or officer.
(c) "Agency" also means any other entity directed by this code to promulgate a rule or rules in accordance with this article, but this definition shall apply solely for the purpose of promulgating the rule or rules required to be promulgated in accordance with this article.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3A. Higher Education Rule Making › §29A-3A-2. Rules to Be Promulgated Only in Accordance With This Article

In addition to other rule-making requirements imposed by law and except to the extent specifically exempted by the provisions of this chapter or other applicable law, every rule and regulation (including any amendment of or rule to repeal any other rule) shall be promulgated by the agency only in accordance with this article and shall be and remain effective only to the extent that it has been or is promulgated in accordance with this article.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3A. Higher Education Rule Making › §29A-3A-2a. Filing Proposed Amendments to an Existing Rule; and Repealing an Existing Rule

(a) The agency shall file all sections of the proposed rule when proposing an amendment to an existing rule. The proposed rule shall be accompanied by note of explanation as to the effect of the amendment and its relation to the existing rules.
(b) The agency proposing to repeal a rule shall file the rule in its entirety with the provisions of the rule struck through. The agency may not repeal a rule by reference in another rule.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3A. Higher Education Rule Making › §29A-3A-3. Limitations on Authority to Exercise Rule-Making Power

(a) Except when, and to the extent that, this chapter or any other provision of law now or hereafter made expressly exempts the agency or a particular grant of the rule-making power from the provisions of this article, every grant of rule-making authority to the agency heretofore provided shall be construed and applied to be effective only:
(1) If heretofore lawfully exercised in accordance with the prior provisions of this chapter and the resulting rule has not been revoked or invalidated by the provisions hereof or by the agency; or
(2) If exercised in accordance with the provisions hereof.
(b) The agency shall not be deemed to have the power and authority to promulgate a legislative rule without compliance with this article unless: (1) The provision of this code, heretofore or hereafter enacted, granting the power and authority expressly exempts its exercise from legislative rule-making review prior to promulgation or (2) the grant of the power and authority is exempted from the application of this chapter by the express provisions of this chapter. To the extent any grant of power and authority not so exempt is deemed to exceed the limits and provisions of this article, the power and authority to promulgate legislative rules is hereby revoked.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3A. Higher Education Rule Making › §29A-3A-4. Rules of Procedure Required

In addition to other rule-making requirements imposed by law:
(a) The agency shall adopt procedural rules governing the formal and informal procedures prescribed or authorized by this chapter. Procedural rules shall include rules of practice before the agency, together with forms and instructions in accordance with 29A-1-2 of this code.
(b) To assist interested persons dealing with it, the agency shall, so far as deemed practicable, supplement its rules with descriptive statements of its procedures.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 29A. State Administrative Procedures Act › Article 3A. Higher Education Rule Making › §29A-3A-5. Filing of Proposed Legislative Exempt Rules, Procedural Rules, and Interpretive Rules

(a) When the agency proposes a legislative exempt, procedural, or interpretive rule, the agency shall file in the State Register a notice of its action, including the text of the rule as proposed.
(b) All proposed rules filed under subsection (a) of this section shall have a fiscal note attached itemizing the cost of implementing the rules as they relate to this state and to persons affected by the rules. The fiscal note shall include all information included in a fiscal note for either house of the Legislature and a statement of the economic impact of the rule on the state or its residents. The objectives of the rule shall be clearly and separately stated in the fiscal note by the agency issuing the proposed rules. A legislative exempt, procedural, or interpretive rule is not void or voidable by virtue of noncompliance with this subsection.