West Virginia Senate Bill 596 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on March 13 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-13 - 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 create the West Virginia Counseling Protection Act. The bill prohibits state agencies and political subdivisions from denying or restricting mental health providers from providing counseling, or any patient from receiving counseling, intended to aid patients in certain self-determined objectives. The bill provides for judicial relief. The bill provides for attorney fees and costs. The bill provides a purpose. The bill makes findings. The bill defines terms.

Creating WV Counseling Protection Act

Sen. Mike Azinger [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-13	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2017-03-13	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2017-03-13	Senate	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
2017-03-13	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB3049 (Similar To) 2017-03-14 - To House Health and Human Resources

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
30	31A	1	New Code	See Bill Text
30	31A	2	New Code	See Bill Text
30	31A	3	New Code	See Bill Text
30	31A	4	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=596&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb596%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=596