ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 560
(Senator Stollings (By Request), original sponsor)
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[Passed March 12, 2011; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §16-29B-20a, relating
to the rate-setting model utilized by the board being exempt
from public disclosure; and providing when the options
generated by the computer program are available to the public.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-29B-20a, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 29B. HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY.
§16-29B-20a. Confidentiality of the rate-setting model.
Rate-setting models utilized by the authority and options
generated by those models are exempt from public disclosure under the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-b of this code: Provided,
That the options generated by the rate-setting models shall be
subject to disclosure under the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-b
of this code, following any decision by the board that utilizes the
rate-setting models.