Today the House of Delegates passed seven bills.
SB 127 would authorize the Insurance Commissioner to issue a legislative rule relating to Adoption of a Valuation Manual.
HB 2519 would require the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources to enter into a compact to ensure payment for health care services provided to other states’ Medicaid participants.
HB 2808 would provide assisted outpatient treatment to individuals suffering from mental illness to prevent them from harming themselves or others, as well as to prevent the costs of inpatient involuntary hospitalization and costs of incarceration due to untreated mental illness.
HB 2857 would create the West Virginia Safer Workplaces Act. It allows employers to test employees and prospective employees for drugs and alcohol. The drug testing must be done during work time and the employer must pay for the testing. If a test is failed, a second test shall be administered. If both come back with positive results, then discipline actions may be taken. The goal of this legislation is to make the workplace safe for all employees.
HB 3009 wouldgrant the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification access to the Controlled Substances Monitoring Program database for regulatory purposes.
HB 3061 wouldencourage a limited cohort of schools to implement mastery-based education through the Innovation In Education program. The Department of Education is given a range of duties from the identification of barriers and potential solutions to developing an incubator process to support schools awarded an Innovation In Schools/Mastery-Based grant. The schools must meet the same requirements and accountability as other Innovation In Education schools.
HB 3089 would provide a transition to the county board of education level of the process for review and adoption of instructional resources required to be used in the schools under the jurisdiction of the county board.
HB 2702 was on 2nd reading today and was amended by Delegate Cowles (R-Morgan) and Delegate Summers (R-Taylor). HB 2707 would provide that excused absences for personal illness, when a family of member of student is ill.
Delegate Cowles amended it to add more flexibility and clarity for unintended consequences. It added nurse practitioner to the list of medical practitioners who could give medical documentation for the family member and changed family member to include not just the parent or guardian. His amendment also states that notification could be given within three days of returning.
Delegate Summers amended it by removing the notification of absences at three days, as there is notification at five days.
HB 2871 was moved out of Rules Committee. This bill eliminates the mandatory 80 percent of the employer, 20 percent employee cost share on PEIA active employee premiums and to instead set 80 percent as the maximum employer share and 20 percent as the minimum employee share.
Committee Meetings Today
Finance: 2 p.m. in 460M
Judiciary: 2 p.m. in 410M
Rules: 4:45 p.m. behind House Chamber
Committee Meetings Tomorrow
Finance: 9 a.m. in 460M
Judiciary: 9 a.m. in 410M
Gov. Org.: 9 a.m. in 215E
Education: 9:30 a.m. in 434M
The House is in recess until 5 p.m. tonight.
Update:
The Rules Committee moved SB 347, HB 2763, HB 2794, HB 2799, HB 2804, HB 2805, HB 2850, HB 2878, HB 2897, HB 2941, and HB 3096 from the Special Calendar to the House Calendar.
The House is adjourned until 11 a.m. tomorrow.
