Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3028%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3028
Timestamp: 2018-02-25 10:44:50
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§48', '§48', '§48', '§48', '§48', '§48', '§48']

Lawrence, Ellington and Pasdon )
AN ACT to amend and reenact §48-25A-1, §48-25A-2 and §48-25A-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to expanding the responsibilities of the Maternal Mortality Review Team to include infant mortality reviews; and renaming it the Infant and Maternal Mortality Review Team.
That §48-25A-1, §48-25A-2 and §48-25A-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
The Legislature finds that there is a need for a process to study the causes of infant and maternal deaths. It has been found that comprehensive studies indicate that maternal mortalities are more extensive than first appear on death certificates.
(a) The Maternal Mortality Review Team established under the Office of Maternal Child and Family Health is continued and renamed the Infant and Maternal Mortality Review Team. The Infant and Maternal Mortality Review Team is a multidisciplinary team created to review the deaths of all infants and women who die during pregnancy, at the time of birth or within one year of the birth of a child.
(3) The Chief Medical Examiner in the Bureau for Public Health or a designee;
(c) Each member serves for a term of five years. Of the members of the commission first appointed, one shall be appointed for a term ending June 30, 2009, and one each for terms ending one, two, three and four years thereafter.
§48-25A-3. Responsibilities of the Infant and Maternal Mortality Review Team.
(a) The Bureau for Public Health in consultation with the Infant and Maternal Mortality Review Team shall, pursuant to the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a, promulgate rules applicable to the following:
(1) Review deaths of all infants and of all women who die during pregnancy, at the time of birth or within one year of the birth of a child;
(1) Call witnesses or take testimony from individuals involved in the investigation of an infant or maternal fatality;
(f) Members of the Infant and Maternal Mortality Review Team may not be questioned in any civil or criminal proceeding regarding information presented in or opinions formed as a result of a meeting of the team. Nothing in this subsection prevents a member of the Infant and Maternal Mortality Review Team from testifying to information obtained independently of the team or which is public information.