WEST virginia legislature

2021 regular session

Originating

House Bill 2028

By Delegates Summers, J. Pack and Rohrbach

[Originating in the Committee on Health and Human Resources; reported on March 18, 2021]

A BILL to amend and reenact §60A-9-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to exempting a veterinarian from the requirements of controlled substance monitoring.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

§60A-9-2. Establishment of program; purpose.

There is hereby established continued a West Virginia controlled substances monitoring act the purpose of which is to require the recordation and retention in a single repository of information regarding the prescribing, dispensing and consumption of certain controlled substances. A veterinarian is exempt from the requirements of this article.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to is exempt a veterinarian from the requirements of controlled substance monitoring.

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