ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 361
(By Senators Bowman, Bailey, Ball, Jackson, Kessler, McCabe, Minard,
Plymale, Redd, Snyder, Walker, Boley and Minear)
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[Passed February 24, 1999; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact section five, article four-c, chapter
sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to continuing the
emergency medical services advisory council.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section five, article four-c, chapter sixteen of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4C. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ACT.
§16-4C-5. Emergency medical services advisory council; duties,
composition, appointment, meetings, compensation and expenses; continuation.
The emergency medical services advisory council, heretofore
created and established by former section seven of this article,
shall be continued for the purpose of developing, with the
commissioner, standards for emergency medical service personnel and
for the purpose of providing advice to the office of emergency medical services and the commissioner with respect to reviewing and
making recommendations for, and providing assistance to, the
establishment and maintenance of adequate emergency medical
services for all portions of this state.
The council shall have the duty to advise the commissioner in
all matters pertaining to his or her duties and functions in
relation to carrying out the purposes of this article.
The council shall be composed of fifteen members appointed by
the governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The
mountain state emergency medical services association shall submit
to the governor a list of six names of representatives from their
association and a list of three names shall be submitted to the
governor of representatives of their respective organizations by
the county commissioners' association of West Virginia, the West
Virginia state firemen's association, the West Virginia hospital
association, the West Virginia chapter of the American college of
emergency physicians, the West Virginia emergency medical services
administrators association, the West Virginia emergency medical
services coalition, the ambulance association of West Virginia
, the
county commissioner's association and
the state department of education. The governor shall appoint from
the respective lists submitted, two persons who represent the mountain state emergency medical services association, one of whom
shall be a paramedic and one of whom shall be an emergency medical
technician-basic, and one person from the county commissioners'
association of West Virginia, the West Virginia state firemen's
association, the West Virginia hospital association, the West
Virginia chapter of the American college of emergency physicians,
the West Virginia emergency medical services administrators
association, the West Virginia emergency medical services
coalition, the ambulance association of West Virginia and the state
department of education. In addition the governor shall appoint
one person to represent emergency medical service providers
operating within the state, one person to represent small emergency
medical service providers operating within this state and three
persons to represent the general public. Not more than six of the
members may be appointed from any one congressional district.
The current advisory council members' terms shall end on the
thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six and,
pursuant to the provisions of this section, the governor shall
appoint an advisory council on the first day of July, one thousand
nine hundred ninety-six. Of those first appointed, one-third shall
serve for one year, one-third shall serve for two years and one- third shall serve for three years. Each subsequent term is to be
for three years and no member may serve more than four consecutive terms.
The council shall choose its own chairman and meet at the call
of the commissioner at least twice a year.
The members of the council shall receive compensation and
expense reimbursement in an amount not to exceed the same
compensation and expense reimbursement as is paid to members of the
Legislature for their interim duties as recommended by the citizens
legislative compensation commission and authorized by law, for each
day or substantial portion thereof engaged in the performance of
official duties.
Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of
this code, the emergency medical services advisory council shall
continue to exist until the first day of July,
one thousand nine
hundred ninety-nine two thousand five.