WEST virginia Legislature
2016 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4654
By Delegates Summers, Campbell, Ellington, Householder and Rohrbach
[Introduced February 22,
2016; Referred
to the Committee on Government Organization.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §30-7-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the Executive Secretary of the Board of Registered Professional Nurses; and removing the executive secretary experience requirements.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §30-7-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7. REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSES.
§30-7-4. Organization and meetings of board; quorum; powers and duties generally; executive secretary; funds.
The board shall meet at
least once each year and shall elect from its members a president and a
secretary. The secretary shall also act as treasurer of the board. The board
may hold such other meetings during the year as it may deem considers
necessary to transact its business. A majority, including one officer, of the
board shall constitute is a quorum at any meeting. The board is
hereby authorized and empowered to may:
(a) Adopt and, from time to
time, amend such rules, and regulations not inconsistent with
this article, as may be necessary to enable it to carry into effect the
provisions of this article;
(b) Prescribe standards for educational programs preparing persons for licensure to practice registered professional nursing under this article;
(c) Provide for surveys of such
educational programs at such time as it may deem times it considers
necessary;
(d) Accredit such
educational programs for the preparation of practitioners of registered
professional nursing as shall that meet the requirements of this
article and of the board;
(e) Deny or withdraw accreditation of educational programs for failure to meet or maintain prescribed standards required by this article and by the board;
(f) Examine, license and renew the licenses of duly qualified applicants;
(g) Conduct hearings upon charges calling for discipline of a licensee or revocation or suspension of a license;
(h) Keep a record of all proceedings of the board;
(i) Make a biennial report to the Governor;
(j) Appoint and employ a qualified
person, who shall may not be a member of the board, to serve as
executive secretary to the board;
(k) Define the duties and fix the compensation for the executive secretary; and
(l) Employ such
other persons as may be necessary to carry on the work of the board.
The executive secretary
shall possess all of the qualifications prescribed in section three for members
of the board, except that he or she shall (a) have had at least eight years of
experience in the practice of registered professional nursing since graduation
from a college or university, at least five of which shall have been devoted to
the teaching in or to the administration of an educational program for the
preparation of practitioners of registered nursing, or to a combination of such
teaching and administration, and (b) shall have been actively engaged in the
practice of registered professional nursing for at least five years preceding
his or her appointment by the board
All fees and other moneys
collected by the board pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be kept
in a separate fund and expended solely for the purpose of this article. No part
of this special fund shall revert reverts to the General Funds of
this state. The compensation provided by this article and all expenses incurred
under this article shall be paid from this special fund. No compensation or
expense incurred under this article shall be is a charge against
the General Funds of this state.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to remove the Board of Registered Professional Nurses executive secretary’s experience requirements.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.