HB4334 S H&HR AMT

Johnson 7909

The Committee on Health and Human Resources moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. House Bill No. 4334 --  A Bill to repeal §30-15-1, §30-15-2, §30-15-3, §30-15-4, §30-15-5, §30-15-6, §30-15-7, §30-15-7a, §30-15-7b, §30-15-7c and §30-15-8, of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended;  to amend and reenact §16-5-19 of said code; to amend and reenact §30-7-1, §30-7-2, §30-7-6, §30-7-7 and §30-7-15a of said code; and to amend said code by adding thereto two new sections, designated, §30-7-15d and §30-7-15e; and to amend said code by adding thereto two new sections, designated, §30-7-21 and §30-7-22 all relating to the licensure and authority of advanced practice registered nurses; repealing separate and redundant provisions relating to nurse-midwives; allowing an advance practice registered nurse with five years of experience to sign death certificates for patients in their care; updating and adding definitions of terms; requiring a license to practice as an advanced practice registered nurse; establishing license requirements for an advanced practice registered nurse; establishing prohibition against use of title of advance practice registered nurse without proper license; updating the qualifications and application requirements to practice as an advance practice registered nurse; requiring joint rule making authority with the Board of Examiners of Registered Professional Nurses, the Board of Medicine, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine and the Board or Pharmacy to allow an advance practice registered nurse to have prescriptive authority; modifying required rulemaking provisions; requiring transmission to the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine a list of all advance practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority; granting signatory authority to advance practice registered nurses on specified health care related documents; creating the Advance Practice Registered Nursing Advisory Council; setting out matters to which the advisory council should give advice and recommendations; establishing membership of the advisory council; setting terms for advisory council membership; staggering appointments of advisory council members; setting out quorum requirements; allowing for selection of a chairman; requiring quarterly meetings; allowing for reimbursement to advisory council members for meeting attendance; and setting forth reporting requirements by the advisory council to the Legislature.