Bill Text: WV HB172 | 2019 | 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Extending the length of time for the special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-17 - To House Select Committee on Education Reform B [HB172 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2019-HB172-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2019 First Extraordinary session
Introduced
House Bill Number
By Delegates Pushkin, Rowe, and Fleischauer
[Introduced June 17,
2019; Referred
to the Select Committee on Education Reform B]
A BILL to amend and reenact §18-21-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to extending the length of time for the special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 21. SPECIAL COMMUNITY-BASED PILOT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR AT-RISK YOUTH.
§18-21-2. Creation of a special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth.
Effective July 1, 2012, if
funds are available, the Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health
and Human Resources shall select a community-based organization to establish a
special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for
At-Risk Youth in a specified community for a duration of seven years until
July 1, 2026. The project will identify, implement and document best
practices that can be replicated in other communities. The designated
community-based organization shall operate the special pilot project under the
direction of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources and
shall work in collaboration with the State School Superintendent, local county
school superintendent, Chancellor for Community and Technical College
Education, the closest community and technical college and four-year college or
university, State Workforce Investment Division, Executive Director of the West
Virginia Vocational Rehabilitation Services, the local juvenile court system,
the local workforce investment board, the Chancellor for Higher Education, the
Director of West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services, the local mental or
behavioral health organizations and other governmental and community-based
organizations.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to extend the length of time for the special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.