West Virginia House Bill 2592 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: Introduced on January 17 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-10 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to establish a nurse staffing and safe harbor peer review process. The bill defines safe harbor. The bill creates protections for nurse licensure under safe harbor. The bill provides for invocation of safe harbor protections. The bill establishes a withdrawal of request for safe harbor nursing review. The bill provides for when to invoke safe harbor and refuse nursing assignments. The bill establishes a Safe Harbor Peer Review committee and designates the makeup of that committee. The bill defines protection from civil or criminal liability under safe harbor. Finally, the bill defines the duties of CNOs/Nurse Administrators.

To provide safe harbor peer review for nurses

Del. Heather Tully [R]	Del. Amy Summers [R]	Del. Trenton Barnhart [R]	Del. Eric Brooks [R]
Del. John Paul Hott [R]	Del. Chris Phillips [R]	Del. Steve Westfall [R]	Del. Dean Jeffries [R]
Del. Phil Mallow [R]	Del. Roland Jennings [R]	Del. Tom Fast [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-10	House	To House Judiciary
2023-02-10	House	With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary
2023-01-17	House	To House Health and Human Resources
2023-01-17	House	Introduced in House
2023-01-17	House	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2023-01-17	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
21	18	1	New Code	See Bill Text
21	18	2	New Code	See Bill Text
21	18	3	New Code	See Bill Text
21	18	4	New Code	See Bill Text
21	18	5	New Code	See Bill Text
21	18	6	New Code	See Bill Text
21	18	7	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2592&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2592%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2592
Amendment	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2592%20h%20hr%20am%20_1.htm