Bill Text: WV HB4535 | 2016 | Regular 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-15 - To House Judiciary [HB4535 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2016-HB4535-Introduced.html
WEST virginia Legislature
2016 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4535
By Delegates Rowe, pushkin, Mccuskey, B. White, Skinner, Sobonya, Fleischauer, Hornbuckle, Faircloth, Byrd and Guthrie
[Introduced February 15,
2016; Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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:
That §18-21-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
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 four seven
years. 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.