West Virginia Senate Bill 201 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-09 - To Health and Human Resources
Pending: Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to explore the potential sale, renovation or leasing of certain state-owned health care facilities. The bill requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources to employ a consultant to study the potential sale, renovation or lease of those facilities. The bill requires the study be submitted to the Governor and Joint Committee on Government and Finance by November 30, 2017. The bill identifies the minimum contents of the study. The bill exempts the hiring of the consultant from certain purchasing requirements. The bill requires the secretary to update the Joint Committee on Government and Finance regarding the selection of the consultant. The bill requires the Director of the Division of Personnel to assist the secretary to develop a strategy related to the employees of the facilities subject of the study. The bill creates a special revenue account to be known as the Health Care Facilities Liquidation Fund. The bill requires the secretary to prepare an accounting of all assets. The bill provides that expenditures from the fund are not authorized from collections deposited in the fund but are to be made only in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature. The bill prohibits the secretary from acting pursuant to the study and any resultant plan without authorization from the Legislature.

Exploring potential sale, renovation or leasing of certain state-owned health care facilities

Sen. Craig Blair [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-09	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2017-02-09	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2017-02-09	Senate	To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2017-02-09	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2366 (Similar To) 2017-04-07 - Senate requests House to concur

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
9	5	25	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=201&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb201%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=201