Senate Bill No. 554

(By Senator Bowman)

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[Introduced February 10, 2006; referred to the Committee

on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL 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 hereby created continued "The Forensic Medical Examination Fund" created as a special fund in the State Treasury into which shall be deposited the legislative appropriations made to the fund. by the Legislature Expenditures from the fund shall be made by 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 for the payment of to pay the costs of forensic medical examinations as they are defined in section sixteen of this article, to train nurses to examine sexual assault victims and for the reimbursement to reimburse the institute of for its expenses in administering the payment payments of the costs from the fund.



NOTE: This bill clarifies that the Prosecuting Attorneys Association may expend money from the Forensic Medical Examination Fund to pay to train nurses to examine victims of sexual assault.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.