ENGROSSED

H. B. 2344

(By Delegates Walters, Harrison, Henderson, Nesbitt,


Calvert, Love and Burke)

[Introduced February 2, 1995; referred to the

Committee on Health and Human Resources then Government Organization.]



A BILL to amend article two-c, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section six, relating to creating a residential board and care home advisory committee.

 Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two-c, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section six, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2C. HOME HEALTH SERVICES.

§16-2C-6. Residential board and care home advisory committee;
terms of members; duties of committee.

There is hereby established the residential board and care home advisory committee. The committee shall consist of eleven members, five members to be appointed by the governor and four members to be appointed by the West Virginia residential board and care home association. Terms of committee members shall be for four years. The remaining two members shall be the chairpersons of the House and Senate committees on health and human resources. At the expiration of any member's term, such member may be reappointed or replaced: Provided, That no member may serve more than two consecutive terms. Committee members may be removed from service on the committee before the expiration of their terms for misfeasance or as the result of infirmity and an inability to serve: Provided, That no member may be removed except as such removal is directed or approved by the governor.
The committee shall meet no less than four times annually. The committee shall advise, assist, and make recommendations to the governor and the Legislature concerning the need for the implementation of additional rules or the elimination of existing rules.
The committee shall also facilitate communications between any governmental agencies or other public entities in order to determine if any legislative or administrative rule that affects the residential board and care home industry in this state is in conflict with any other such rule or policy.