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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

Senate Bill No. 634

(By Senators Kessler, Minard, Edgell, Bowman, McKenzie, Anderson, Facemyer, Hunter, Deem, Boley, Sharpe, Helmick, Fanning, Prezioso, Unger, Ross, Minear, Bailey and McCabe)

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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;

reported April 4, 2001.]

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A BILL to amend article twenty-b, chapter thirty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section ten, relating to establishing a medical malpractice insurance study task force.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article twenty-b, chapter thirty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section ten, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 20B. RATES AND MALPRACTICE INSURANCE POLICIES.

§33-20B-10. Medical malpractice insurance study task force.
(a) The medical malpractice insurance study task force is hereby created to secure information and make its findings and recommendations to the governor and the Legislature regarding the factors affecting the cost of medical malpractice insurance to health care providers in West Virginia.
(b) The task force will have eleven members: The insurance commissioner or his or her designee; a physician licensed to practice medicine in West Virginia; a licensed administrator of a West Virginia hospital; two attorneys licensed to practice and actively practicing law in this state, one of whom must be a member of the West Virginia trial lawyers association; a professor of law teaching at West Virginia university with an expertise in insurance law; the president of the West Virginia Senate or his or her designee; the speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates or his or her designee; a representative of the medical malpractice insurance industry; and two members from the public at large who are advocates for consumer rights. The governor shall appoint the members to the medical malpractice insurance study task force no later than the first day of June, two thousand one, and the task force shall have its first meeting no later than the first day of July, two thousand one.
(c) Members of the medical malpractice insurance study task force shall receive no compensation for their service on the task force.
(d) The medical malpractice insurance study task force shall make a written report on the factors affecting the cost of medical malpractice insurance to health care providers in West Virginia to the governor and the Legislature no later than the first day of January, two thousand two.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide the Legislature and the governor with sufficient data to enable them to determine what, if any, executive or legislative action might be necessary to alleviate the high cost of medical malpractice insurance.

§33-20B-10 is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.)
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