Senate Bill No. 366

(By Senator Prezioso)

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[Introduced January 29, 2007; referred to the Committee on Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact §18-5-22a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to not requiring certain special education teachers to administer medications.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-5-22a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-5-22a. Policy for the administration of medications.

All county boards of education shall develop a specific medication administration policy which establishes the procedure to be followed for the administration of medication at each school.
No school employee shall be required to administer medications. Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent any school employee to elect to administer medication after receiving training as provided herein. Provided, however, That any school employee in the field of special education whose employment commenced on or after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine, may be required to administer medications after receiving training as provided herein. A school employee who has received training as provided in this article may elect to administer medications.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that certain special education teachers administer medications.

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