COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 694
(By Senator Prezioso, By Request)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported April 4, 2001.]
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A BILL to amend chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding
thereto a new article, designated article five-t, relating to
the establishment of the care home advisory board.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding
thereto a new article, designated article five-t
,
to read as
follows:
CHAPTER 16. PUBLIC HEALTH.
ARTICLE 5T. Care home advisory board.
§16-5T-1. Care home advisory board created; membership; terms;
meetings; compensation; termination.
(a) The care home advisory board is hereby created to gather
information concerning personal care homes, as defined and
regulated in article five-d of this chapter, and residential board
and care
homes, as defined and regulated in article five-h, and make
its findings and recommendations to the governor and the
Legislature.
(b) The care home advisory
board will have seven members: The
President of the Senate or his or her designee;
the Speaker of the
House or his or her designee;
the secretary of the department of
health and human resources or his or her designee; an operator
of
a personal care home licensed in this state
; an operator of a
residential board and care home
licensed in this state
; and two
member of the public at large, one of which shall be an advocate
for consumer rights.
(c) The governor shall appoint the members to the board, by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Appointments under
the provision of this article shall be for a three year term or the
unexpired term, except in the initial appointments as follows: One
citizen member shall be appointed for a two year term; one citizen
member shall be appointed for a three year term; and the care home operator members shall be appointed for a one year term.
Subsequent appointments to the committee shall be for three year
terms. No member shall serve more than two successive terms.
(d) The advisory board shall meet at least four times annually
at the times and places in the state that it determines. A
majority of the members constitutes a quorum for the purpose of
conducting business.
The secretary of the department of health and
human resources or his or her designee
the secretary of the
department of health and human resources or his or her designee
shall serve as chair of the advisory board.
(e) Members of the advisory board are not entitled to
compensation for services performed as members, but are entitled to
reimbursement for all reasonable and necessary expenses actually
incurred in the performance of their duties, which shall be paid
from the funds of the department of health and human resources.
(f) Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of
this code, the care home advisory board shall continue to exist
until the first day of July, two thousand three, unless sooner
terminated, continued or reestablished by act of the Legislature.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create a Care Home
Advisory Board.
§16-5T-1 is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring
have been omitted.