Senate Bill No. 111
(By Senators Minard, Anderson, Bailey, Blatnik,
Boley, Burdette, Mr. President, Chafin, Chernenko, Claypole,
Craigo, Dalton, Dittmar, Grubb, Helmick, Holliday, Humphreys,
Jones, Lucht, Macnaughtan, Manchin, Miller, Plymale,
Ross, Schoonover, Tomblin, Wagner, Walker, Wehrle, Whitlow,
Wiedebusch, Withers and Wooton)
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[Introduced January 26, 1994; referred to the Committee
on Government Organization.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article two, chapter
twenty-seven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to state hospitals
and other facilities; renaming Weston hospital as William R.
Sharpe, Jr. hospital; and making technical revisions.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article two, chapter twenty-seven of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES.
§27-2-1. State hospitals and other facilities; transfer of
control and property from department of mental health to
department of health and human resources; civil service
coverage.
The state hospitals heretofore established at Weston,
Huntington, Lakin, St. Marys and Lewisburg shall be continued and
known respectively as the William R. Sharpe, Jr. hospital,
Huntington hospital, Lakin hospital, Colin Anderson center and
the Greenbrier school for retarded children. Said state
hospitals and centers shall be managed, directed and controlled
by the division of health, except as otherwise allowed in
subdivision (4), section ten, article one, chapter sixteen of
this code for the Greenbrier school for retarded children. Any
person employed by the department of mental health who on the
first day of July, one thousand nine hundred seventy-seven, is a
classified civil service employee shall, within the limits
contained in section two, article six, chapter twenty-nine of
this code, remain in the civil service system as a covered
employee. The director of the division of health is hereby
authorized to bring said hospitals into structural compliance
with appropriate fire and health standards. All references in
this code or elsewhere in law to the "West Virginia training
school" shall be taken and construed to mean and refer to the
"Colin Anderson center".
The control of the property, records and financial and other
affairs of state mental hospitals and other state mental health
facilities is hereby transferred from the department of mental
health to the department of health and human resources. As thechief executive officer, the director of health shall, in respect
to the control and management of such state hospitals and other
state mental health facilities, perform the same duties and
functions as were heretofore exercised or performed by the
department of mental health. The title to all property of such
state hospitals and other state facilities is hereby transferred
to and vested in the department of health and human resources.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code to the
contrary, whenever in this code there is a reference to the
department of mental health, it shall be construed to mean and
shall be a reference to the director of the division of health.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to change the name of
Weston hospital to the William R. Sharpe, Jr. hospital and to
make minor changes.)