West Virginia Senate Bill 40 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on February 13 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-13 - 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 allow for expedited partner therapy. It would permit prescribing antibiotics for the partner of a patient without first examining the partner. It requires counseling by the physician. The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Resources to develop outreach materials. The bill has limited liability for physician, physician assistants and advance nurse practitioners who prescribe in an expedited partner therapy setting. The bill makes changes to the licensing portions of the code to make it permissible for the various disciplines to prescribe without disciplinary actions from their respective licensing boards.

Permitting expedited partner therapy

Sen. Ron Stollings [D]

Sen. Evan Jenkins [D]

Sen. Ronald Miller [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-13	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2013-02-13	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2013-02-13	Senate	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2013-02-13	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2523 (Same As) 2013-02-18 - To House Health and Human Resources
SB201 (Same As) 2013-04-03 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	4F	1	New Code	See Bill Text
16	4F	2	New Code	See Bill Text
16	4F	3	New Code	See Bill Text
16	4F	4	New Code	See Bill Text
16	4F	5	New Code	See Bill Text
30	14	11	Amended Code	Citation Text
30	14A	1	Amended Code	Citation Text
30	3	14	Amended Code	Citation Text
30	3	16	Amended Code	Citation Text
30	7	15a	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=40&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb40%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=40