West Virginia Senate Bill 373 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 3 2010 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-03-04 - To House Health and Human Resources
Pending: House Health & Human Resources Committee

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Caregivers Consent Act, allowing a caregiver who is not a parent, legal custodian or guardian of a minor to consent to health care for a minor through an affidavit. The bill provides for the revocation and termination of consent, good faith reliance on the affidavit, exceptions to an affidavit's applicability, penalties for a false statement in an affidavit of consent and rule-making authority. This article is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted

Creating Caregivers Consent Act

Sen. Dan Foster [D]

Sen. Joseph Minard [D]

Sen. Roman Prezioso [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-04		To House Health and Human Resources
2010-03-04		To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2010-03-04		Introduced in House
2010-03-03		Ordered to House
2010-03-03		Passed Senate (Roll No. 52)
2010-03-03		Read 3rd time
2010-03-03		Deferred until Foot of 3rd
2010-03-03		On 3rd reading
2010-03-02		Read 2nd time
2010-03-02		On 2nd reading
2010-03-01		Read 1st time
2010-03-01		On 1st reading
2010-02-26		Committee substitute reported
2010-02-03		To Judiciary
2010-02-03		Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary
2010-01-28		To Health and Human Resources
2010-01-28		To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2010-01-28		Introduced in Senate
2010-01-28		To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2010-01-28		Filed for introduction

HB4374 (Same As) 2010-06-06 - Effective Date

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
49	11	1	New Code	See Bill Text
49	11	10	New Code	See Bill Text
49	11	2	New Code	See Bill Text
49	11	3	New Code	See Bill Text
49	11	4	New Code	See Bill Text
49	11	5	New Code	See Bill Text
49	11	6	New Code	See Bill Text
49	11	7	New Code	See Bill Text
49	11	8	New Code	See Bill Text
49	11	9	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=373&year=2010&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill