Senate Bill No. 633
(By Senator Snyder)
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[Introduced March 26, 2001; referred to the Committee on
Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article one, chapter sixteen of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding a new section, designated section nine-c; and to amend
and reenact section nine, article seventeen, chapter thirty of
said code, all relating to requiring the board of registration
for sanitarians and the division of environmental health
services to notify registered sanitarians and other registered
certified or licensed persons prior to expiration of their
registration, certification or license.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article one, chapter sixteen of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, section nine-c; and that section nine, article seventeen, chapter thirty of said code be
amended and reenacted, to read as follows:
CHAPTER 16. PUBLIC HEALTH
ARTICLE 1. STATE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM.
§16-1-9c. Division of environmental health services to notify
persons prior to expiration of licenses or
certifications.
At least forty-five days before the license, certification or
registration is to expire, the director of the division of
environmental health services shall notify by first class mail,
each individual licensed, certified or registered under the
division of the date the license, certification or registration is
to expire, instructions on how to renew, and the consequences of
nonrenewal.
CHAPTER 30. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS.
ARTICLE 17. SANITARIANS.
§30-17-9. Board organization; duties of the board, officers,
compensation, seal and meetings.
(a) The members of the board shall, as soon as appointed,
organize and annually thereafter in the month of July, elect from
their number a chairperson and vice chairperson.
(b) The board shall make such rules as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.
(c) Funds collected under the provisions of this article shall
be used exclusively to pay compensation and expenses of the board
and to administer the provisions of this article.
(d) The board may at such times as it deems considers
necessary employ such administrative employees or other persons as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.
(e) At least forty-five days before the registration is to
expire, the board shall notify each registered sanitarian or
sanitarian-in-training, by first class mail, of the date the
individual's registration will expire, instructions on how to renew
the registration, and the consequences of nonrenewal.
NOTE:
The purpose of this bill is to
require the Board of
Registration for Sanitarians to notify registered sanitarians and
sanitarians-in-training prior to expiration of their registration,
and inform them of steps necessary to renew registration. It
requires the Division of Environmental Health Services to give
similar notice to individuals licensed, certified or registered
under the division.
§16-1-9c is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring
have been omitted.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.