ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 554
(Senator Bowman, original sponsor)
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[Passed March 10, 2006; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact §61-8B-15 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to clarification of permissible
expenditures from the Forensic Medical Examination Fund.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §61-8B-15 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 8B. SEXUAL OFFENSES.
§61-8B-15. Forensic Medical Examination Fund; training of sexual
assault nurse examiners.
There is continued the "Forensic Medical Examination Fund",
created as a special fund in the State Treasury, into which shall
be deposited legislative appropriations to the fund. The West
Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute, created by the provisions
of section six, article four, chapter seven of this code, shall
make expenditures from the fund, where it is determined to be
practical by the executive council and the executive director to pay the costs of forensic medical examinations as defined in
section sixteen of this article, to train nurses to examine sexual
assault victims and to reimburse the institute for its expenses in
administering payments from the fund.
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