West Virginia Senate Bill 206 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)
Status: Introduced on January 19 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-01-19 - 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 establish the Office of Child Advocacy. The bill defines terms. The bill sets forth the powers and duties of the Office of Child Advocacy and provides the qualifications, term of office and salary of its Director. The bill grants authority for the Director to hire staff. Also, the bill provides the Director and staff of the Office of Child Advocacy to investigate and monitor the Division of Child Protective Services and Division of Juvenile Services. The bill authorizes access by office of Child Protective Services and certain Division of Corrections to records and information. The bill allows communications with children involved in Child Protective Services investigations and in the custody of the division of Juvenile Services. The bill further provides for confidentiality of certain information and grants immunity to Office from liability in specified circumstances. This article is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

Creating Office of Child Advocacy

Sen. Donna Boley [R]	Sen. Larry Edgell [D]	Sen. Dan Foster [D]	Sen. Evan Jenkins [D]
Sen. Jeffrey Kessler [D]	Sen. Orphy Klempa [D]	Sen. William Laird [D]	Sen. Ronald Miller [D]
Sen. Joseph Minard [D]	Sen. Corey Palumbo [D]	Sen. Robert Plymale [D]	Sen. Roman Prezioso [D]
Sen. Herb Snyder [D]	Sen. Ron Stollings [D]	Sen. John Unger [D]	Sen. Erik Wells [D]
Sen. Bob Williams [D]	Sen. Jack Yost [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-01-19		To Health and Human Resources
2011-01-19		Introduced in Senate
2011-01-19		To Health and Human Resources then Finance
2011-01-19		Filed for introduction

HB2558 (Same As) 2011-01-26 - To House Finance

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

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=206&year=2011&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb206%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=206
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb206%20intr.htm&yr=&sesstype=&i=206