Senate Bill No. 493
(By Senators Prezioso, Oliverio and Stollings)
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[Introduced March 6, 2009; referred to the Committee on Health
and Human Resources.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §18-10A-15 of the Code of West
Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to changing control of
the central registry for severe head injuries from the
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to the Center for
Excellence in Disabilities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-10A-15 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 10A. REHABILITATION SERVICES.
§18-10A-15. Establishment of a central registry of traumatic head
injury; acute care facility required to report head
injury.
(a) The director Center for Excellence in Disabilities shall
establish and maintain a central registry of persons who sustain
spinal cord injury or severe head injury other than through disease, whether or not permanent disability results, in order to
facilitate the provisions of appropriate rehabilitative services by
the division or other state agencies to such persons provision of
appropriate services through referral and collaboration with the
division and other state agencies for such persons.
(b) The current acute care facility shall report to the
director Center for Excellence in Disabilities by the most
expeditious means within seven days after identification of any
person sustaining such an injury. The report shall contain the
name and residence of the person and the name of the current acute
care facility.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to change control of the
central registry for severe head injuries from the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation to the Center for Excellence in
Disabilities.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.)