Bill Text: WV HB4534 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the executive secretary of the Health Professional Licensing Boards
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-20 - To House Finance [HB4534 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB4534-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2018 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4534
By Delegate Howell
[Introduced February 13,
2018; Referred
to the Committee on Government Organization then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §30-1-15 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the executive secretary of the Health Professional Licensing Boards; requiring designation of staff member to act as victims advocate.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL STATE BOARDS OF EXAMINATION OR REGISTRATION REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER.
§30-1-15. Office of executive secretary of the health profession licensing boards; appointment of executive secretary; duties.
(a) The office of the executive secretary of the health
professional licensing boards is hereby created continued. The
health profession licensing boards shall include those boards provided for
in §30-2A-1 et seq., §30-4-1 et seq., §30-5-1 et seq., §30-6-1
et seq. §30-7-1 et seq., §30-7a-1 et seq., §30-8-1 et
seq., §30-10-1 et seq., §30-14-1 et seq., §30-16-1 et
seq., §30-17-1 et seq., §30-20-1 et seq. §30-25-1 et seq.,
and §30-26-1 et seq. of this code. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this code to the contrary the office space personnel, records and
like business affairs of the health profession licensing boards shall be within
the office of the executive secretary of the health profession licensing
boards. The secretaries of each of the health profession licensing boards shall
coordinate purchasing, record keeping, personnel, use of reporters and like
matters under the executive secretary in order to achieve the most efficient
and economical fulfillment of their functions. The executive secretary shall be
appointed by the director of health and shall report to the director. The
executive secretary shall keep the fiscal records and accounts of each of the
boards. The executive secretary shall keep the director informed as to the
needs of each of the boards. The executive secretary shall coordinate the
activities and efforts of the boards with the activities of the health
resources advisory council and shall see that the needs for health manpower
perceived by the boards are communicated to the health resources advisory
council. The executive secretary shall keep any statistics and information on
health professions, collected by or for the boards and shall make such
statistics and information available to the health resources advisory council
to aid it in carrying out its responsibilities.
(b) The executive secretary of the health professional licensing boards shall designate one member of his or her staff to act in the capacity of an advocate for victims. The duties of the victims advocate include maintaining liaison with complainants in cases pending before each of the health professional licensing boards to provide those complainants with periodic status updates on the status of cases initiated by the complainant.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the executive secretary of the health professional licensing boards to designate a victims advocate.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
