ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 554
(Senator Bowman, original sponsor)
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[Passed March 10, 2006; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact §61-8B-15 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to clarification of permissible expenditures from the Forensic Medical Examination Fund.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §61-8B-15 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 8B. SEXUAL OFFENSES.

§61-8B-15. Forensic Medical Examination Fund; training of sexual assault nurse examiners.

There is continued the "Forensic Medical Examination Fund", created as a special fund in the State Treasury, into which shall be deposited legislative appropriations to the fund. The West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute, created by the provisions of section six, article four, chapter seven of this code, shall make expenditures from the fund, where it is determined to be practical by the executive council and the executive director to pay the costs of forensic medical examinations as defined in section sixteen of this article, to train nurses to examine sexual assault victims and to reimburse the institute for its expenses in administering payments from the fund.