HB4199 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. Com. Sub. for House Bill 4199--A Bill to repeal §30-7D-1, §30-7D-2, §30-7D-3, §30-7D-4, §30-7D-5, §30-7D-6, §30-7D-7, §30-7D-8, §30-7D-9, §30-7D-10, §30-7D-11, §30-7D-12, and §30-7D-13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §16-5AA-1, §16-5AA-2, §16-5AA-3, §16-5AA-4, §16-5AA-5, §16-5AA-6, §16-5AA-7, §16-5AA-8, §16-5AA-9, and §16-5AA-10, all relating to permitting a nursing home to use trained individuals to administer medication under the direction of a registered professional nurse; defining terms; authorizing an AMAP to administer medication in nursing home; providing certain exemptions from chapter thirty licensing requirements; establishing requirements for training curricula and competency evaluation procedures; establishing eligibility criteria; establishing procedures by which an AMAP must administer medication; requiring nursing homes using an AMAP to establish an administrative monitoring system; permitting a registered professional nurse to withdraw authorization for an AMAP to administer medications in certain circumstances; allowing certain fees to be collected; providing limits on administration of medication by an AMAP; providing that use of an AMAP in nursing homes is permissive; and repealing a pilot program designed to monitor the practice of unlicensed personnel administering medication in a nursing home setting.

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