Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB185%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2008&sesstype=RS&i=185
Timestamp: 2018-02-25 16:25:54
Document Index: 618222457

Matched Legal Cases: ['§27', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§922', '§164', '§922', '§61', '§922']

AN ACT to amend and reenact §27-3-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §61-7-7 of said code; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §61-7A-1, §61-7A-2, §61-7A-3, §61-7A-4 and §61-7A- 5 , all relating to clarifying mental conditions which prohibit firearms' possession and disclosure of prohibited firearm possession; disclosure of confidential information; notice of surrender of firearms under certain conditions; right to petition to regain ability to possess firearms; legislative intent; definitions; requiring state registry of persons precluded firearms' possession due to mental condition; authorizing reporting of information to national registry; limitations on use of information; and establishing a procedure for petitioning to regain right to possess a firearm .
(4) To provide notice to the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System, established pursuant to section 103(d) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, 18 U. S. C.§922, in accordance with article seven-a, chapter sixty-one of this code;
(7) Without the patient's consent as provided for under the Privacy Rule of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C. F. R. §164.506, for thirty days from the date of admission to a mental health facility if: (i) The provider makes a good faith effort to obtain consent from the patient or legal representative prior to disclosure; (ii) the minimum information necessary is released for a specifically stated purpose; and (iii) prompt notice of the disclosure, the recipient of the information and the purpose of the disclosure is given to the patient or legal representative.
As used in this article and as the terms are deemed to mean in 18 U. S. C. §922(g) and section seven, article seven of this chapter as each exists as of the thirty-first day of January, two thousand eight:
§61-7A-4 . Confidentiality; limits on use of registry information.
(a)Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the Superintendent of the State Police, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources and the circuit clerks and the Administrator of the Supreme Court of Appeals may provide notice to the central state mental health registry and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System established pursuant to Section 103(d) of the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, 18 U. S. C.§922, that a person: (i) Has been involuntarily committed as provided in chapter twenty-seven of this code; (ii) has been adjudicated mentally incompetent in a proceeding under article six- a of this chapter; or (iii) has regained the ability to possess a firearm by order of a circuit court in a proceeding under section five of this article.