HB3109 HFA Pushkin 3-27 310

Delegate Pushkin moves to amend the bill on page 2 and 3 by striking out the enacting section, and inserting in lieu thereof, the following:

“To amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-2a-1, to read as follows:”

And,

On page 4, line 1, by striking out the remainder of the bill and inserting in lieu thereof, the following:

Ҥ30-2A-1. Medical Licensing Board study and report.

(a) For the purpose of study  of consolidation of the following boards into a single regulatory agency, to assure this consolidation will protect human health and properly regulate the affected professions, and to allow the delineated boards provide imput regarding possible consolidation, public hearings must be conducted on each of the following state boards, to determine the feasibility and practicality of consolidation of the boards into one regulatory bureaucracy: Board of Acupuncture, Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists, Board of Examiners in Counseling, Board of Hearing Aid Dealers, Board of Licensed Dietitians, Nursing Home Administrators Board, Board of Dental Examiners, Board of Medicine, Board of Pharmacy, Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Board of Osteopathy, Board of Physical Therapy, Board of Occupational Therapy, Board of Examiners for Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy, Board of Examiners, Board of Professional Surveyors, Board of Registration for Foresters Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, Board of Board of Examiners for Licensed Practical Nurses Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses, Massage Therapy Licensure Board, Board of Architects, Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors, Board of Landscape Architects, Board of Registration for Sanitarians, Real Estate Appraiser Licensure and Certification Board, and the Real Estate Commission.

(b)  Each board shall report back on the results of the public hearing process and recommendations to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability, relating the following:

(1) The general support or opposition of the regulated community to a consolidation;

(2) Any estimated costs savings to the state from elimination of the board or commission and reduction of licensing fees to the regulated community; and

(3) The impact on professional accountability, and other impacts that the boards identiy and are represented in the public hearings.”