WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced Senate Bill 409
BY Senator Woodrum [Introduced January 20, 2023; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]
145 CSR 15 2023R2331S 2023R2332H
1 A BILL to amend and reenact §64-10-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to
2 authorizing the West Virginia Department of Economic Development to promulgate a
3 legislative rule relating to Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business
4 Technology Transfer Matching Funds Program.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 10. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TO
PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-10-1. West Virginia Department of Economic Development.
1 The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 29, 2022, authorized under the
2 authority of §5B-8-2 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Department of Economic
3 Development to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled
4 in the State Register on November 1, 2022, relating to the West Virginia Department of Economic
5 Development (Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer
6 Matching Funds Program, 145 CSR 15), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Department of Economic Development to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Matching Funds Program.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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Statutes affected:
Committee Substitute: 64-10-1
Enrolled Committee Substitute: 64-10-1
Introduced Version: 64-10-1