Senate Bill No. 591
(By Senators Prezioso, Sharpe, Boley, Unger, Oliverio, Bowman,
McCabe, Snyder, Kessler, Ross, Sprouse, Minear, Love, Dempsey,
Minard, Plymale, Jenkins, Facemyer, Bailey, Weeks, Guills,
Helmick and Caldwell)
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[Introduced February 20, 2004; referred to the Committee on
Health and Human Resources.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §30-1-7a of the code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to continuing education
requirements for certain licensed health care professionals
and requiring completion of two hours of continuing education
course work in the subject of end-of-life care including pain
management before their licenses may be renewed.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §30-1-7a of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL STATE BOARDS OF
EXAMINATION OR REGISTRATION REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER.
§30-1-7a. Continuing education.
(a) Each board referred to in this chapter shall establish
continuing education requirements as a prerequisite to license
renewal. Each board shall develop continuing education criteria appropriate to its discipline, which shall include, but not be
limited to, course content, course approval, hours required and
reporting periods.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or the
provision of any rule to the contrary, each person issued a license
to practice medicine and surgery or a license to practice podiatry
or a license as a physician assistant by the West Virginia board of
medicine, each person licensed as a pharmacist by the West Virginia
board of pharmacy, each person licensed to practice registered
professional nursing or licensed as an advanced nurse practitioner
by the West Virginia board of examiners for registered professional
nurses, each person licensed as a licensed practical nurse by the
West Virginia state board of examiners for licensed practical
nurses and each person licensed to practice medicine and surgery as
an osteopathic physician and surgeon or certified as an osteopathic
physician assistant by the West Virginia board of osteopathy shall
complete two hours of continuing education course work in the
subject of end-of-life care including pain management during each
continuing education reporting period through the thirtieth day of
June, two thousand five. Beginning the first day of July, two
thousand five, each currently licensed person covered by the
provisions of this section, who has not completed two hours of
continuing education course work in the subject of end-of-life
education including course work on pain management and, each new licensee, shall complete two hours of continuing education course
work in the subject of end-of-life education including course work
on pain management before his or her license to practice may be
renewed. The two hours shall be part of the total hours of
continuing education required by each board by rule and not two
additional hours.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require licensed health
care professionals to complete two hours of continuing education
course work in the subject of end-of-life care including pain
management before their licenses to practice may be renewed.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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