Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4281%20intr.htm&yr=2010&sesstype=RS&i=4281
Timestamp: 2018-03-24 17:26:32
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D. Poling, C. Miller, Williams, Border, Hunt,
Ashley and Lane)
A BILL to repeal §9-4C-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to repeal §27-1A-12 of said code; to repeal §27-2-1a and §27-2-1b of said code; to amend and reenact §9-4C-1 of said code; to amend §9-5-11c of said code; to amend §9-6-1 of said code; to amend and reenact §11-27-10 and §11-27-11 of said code; to amend and reenact §16-1-4 of said code; to amend and reenact §16-2D-2 and §16-2D-5 of said code; to amend and reenact §16-5F-2 of said code; to amend and reenact §16-5O-2 of said code; to amend and reenact §16-22-1 and §16-22-2 of said code; to amend and reenact §16-29A-3 of said code; to amend and reenact §16-30-7 and §16-30-24 of said code; to amend and reenact §27-1-3, §27-1-6, §27-1-7 and §27-1-9; to amend and reenact §27-1A-1, §27-1A-4 and §27-1A-6 of said code; to amend and reenact §27-2-1 of said code; to amend and reenact §27-2A-1 of said code; to amend and reenact §27-4-1 of said code; to amend and reenact §27-5-9 of said code; to amend and reenact §27-9-1 of said code; to amend and reenact §27-12-1 of said code; to amend and reenact §29-15-1, §29-15-5 and §29-15-6 of said code; to amend and reenact §44A-1-1 and §44A-1-2 of said code; and to amend and reenact §49-4A-6 of said code, all relating to replacing references to "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability"; replacing the term "mentally retarded" with "intellectually disabled" or "individuals with an intellectual disability"; renaming an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded (ICF-MR) to an intermediate care facility for individuals with an intellectual disability (ICF-ID); altering definitions of terms; and deleting obsolete references.
That §9-4C-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be repealed; that §27-1A-12 of said code be repealed; that §27-2-1a and §27-2-1b of said code be repealed; that §9-4C-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §9-5-11c of said code be amended and reenacted; that §9-6-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §11-27-10 and §11-27-11 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §16-1-4 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §16-2D-2 and §16-2D-5 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §16-5F-2 of said code be emended and reenacted; that §16-5O-2 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §16-22-1 and §16-22-2 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §16-29A-3 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §16-30-7 and §16-30-24 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §27-1-3, §27-1-6, §27-1-7 and §27-1-9 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §27-1A-1, §27-1A-4 and §27-1A-6 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §27-2-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §27-2A-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §27-4-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §27-5-9 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §27-9-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §27-12-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §29-15-1, §29-15-5 and §29-15-6 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §44A-1-1 and §44A-1-2 of said code be amended and reenacted; and that §49-4A-6 be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
(c) The state shall have the right to place a lien upon the property of individuals who are inpatients in a nursing facility, intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded individuals with an intellectual disability, or other medical institution who, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the state has deemed to be permanently institutionalized. This lien shall be in an amount equal to Medicaid expenditures for services provided by a nursing facility, intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded individuals with an intellectual disability or other medical institution, and shall be rendered against the proceeds of the sale of property except for a minimal amount reserved for the individual's personal needs. Any such lien shall dissolve dissolves upon that individual's discharge from the medical institution. The secretary has authority to compromise or otherwise reduce the amount of this lien in cases where enforcement would create a hardship.
(7) "Nursing home" or "facility" means any institution, residence, intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded individuals with an intellectual disability, care home or any other adult residential facility, or any part or unit thereof, that is subject to the provisions of articles five-c, five-d, five-e or five-h, chapter sixteen of this code;
(b) Rate and measure of tax. -- The tax imposed in subsection (a) of this section shall be is five and one-half percent of the gross receipts derived by the taxpayer from furnishing nursing facility services in this state, other than services of intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded individuals with an intellectual disability. This rate shall be increased to five and ninety-five one hundredths percent of the gross receipts received or receivable by providers of nursing facility services after June 30, 2004 and shall again be decreased to five and one-half percent of the gross receipts received or receivable by providers of nursing services after October 31, 2007.
(h) No additional intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded individuals with an intellectual disability(ICF/MR ID) beds shall may be granted a certificate of need, except that prohibition does not apply to ICF/MR beds approved under the Kanawha County Circuit Court order of August 3, 1989, civil action number MISC-81-585 issued in the case of E.H. v. Matin, 168 W.V. 248, 284 S.E. 2d 232 (1981).
(d) "Facility" means an ICF/MR, ICF/ID a personal care home, residential board and care home, behavioral health group home, private residence in which health care services are provided under the supervision of a registered nurse or an adult family care home that is licensed by or approved by the department.
"Mental retardation Intellectual disability" means significantly subaverage intellectual functioning which manifests itself in a person during his or her developmental period and which is characterized by his or her inadequacy in adaptive behavior.
§27-1A-4. Powers and duties of the commissioner.
The commissioner shall be the executive head of the department, and as such shall have Except as provided in section six, article one, chapter sixteen of this code, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources has the following powers and duties:
The Commissioner secretary is hereby authorized and empowered to accept and use for the benefit of a state hospital, center or institution, or for any other mental health purpose specified in this chapter, any gift or devise of any property or thing which lawfully may be given. If such a gift or devise is for a specific purpose or for a particular state hospital, center or institution, it shall be used as specified. Any gift or devise of any property or thing which lawfully may be given and whatever profit may arise from its use or investment shall be deposited in a special revenue fund with the State Treasurer, and shall be used only as specified by the donor or donors.
There shall be is a Division of Professional Services in the Department of Mental Health. The supervisor of this division shall assist the director in the operation of the programs or services of the department and shall be a qualified psychiatrist.
The control of the property, records, and financial and other affairs of state mental hospitals and other state mental health facilities is hereby transferred from the Department of Mental Health to the Department of Health and Human Resources. As the chief executive officer, the Director of Health secretary shall, in respect to the control and management of such the state hospitals and other state mental health facilities, perform the same duties and functions as were heretofore exercised or performed by the Department of Mental Health Director of Health. The title to all property of such the state hospitals and other state facilities is hereby transferred to and vested in the Department of Health and Human Resources.
ARTICLE 2A. MENTAL HEALTH - MENTAL RETARDATION INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY CENTERS.
(5) Have a chief administrative officer directly responsible to a legally constituted board of directors of a comprehensive mental health or mental retardation intellectual disability facility operated by a local nonprofit organization, or to the Director of the Department of Health Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources if the comprehensive mental health or mental retardation intellectual disability center or facility is operated by the Department of Health and Human Resoources; and
The state's share of costs of operating such the facilities may be provided from funds appropriated for this purpose within the budget of the Department of Health and Human Resources. The director secretary of that department shall administer these funds among all comprehensive mental health and mental retardation intellectual disability facilities as may be that are required to best provide comprehensive community mental health care and services to the citizens of the state.
The chief medical officer of a mental health facility, subject to the availability of suitable accommodations and to the rules and regulations promulgated by the board of Health Sercetary of the Department of Health and Human Resources, shall admit for diagnosis, care and treatment any individual:
(a) Over eighteen years of age who is mentally ill, mentally retarded intellectually disabled or addicted, or who has manifested symptoms of mental illness, mental retardation intellectual disability or addiction and who makes application for hospitalization; or
(b) Under eighteen years of age who is mentally ill, mentally retarded intellectually disabled or addicted or who has manifested symptoms of mental illness, mental retardation intellectual disability or addiction and there is application for hospitalization therefor in his or her behalf: (1) By the parents of such person, or (2) if only one parent is living, then by such that parent, or (3) if the parents are living separate and apart, by the parent who has the custody of such the person, or (4) if there is a guardian who has custody of such the person, then by such that guardian. Such admission shall be conditioned upon the consent of the prospective patient if he or she is twelve years of age or over.
(c) No person under eighteen years of age shall may be admitted under this section to any state hospital unless said that person has first been reviewed and evaluated by a local mental health facility and recommended for admission.
No hospital, center or institution, or part thereof of any hospital, center or institution, to provide inpatient, outpatient or other service designed to contribute to the care and treatment of the mentally ill or mentally retarded intellectually disabled, or prevention of such disorders, shall may be established, maintained or operated by any political subdivision or by any person, persons, association or corporation unless a license therefor shall be is first obtained from the Director of Health Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources. The application for such license shall be accompanied by a plan of the premises to be occupied, and such other data and facts as the director commissioner may require. He The secretary may make such terms and regulations in regard to the conduct of such any licensed hospital, center or institution, or part thereof of any licensed hospital, center or institution, as he may think or she thinks proper and necessary. He The secretary, or any person authorized by him, shall have the secretary has authority to investigate and inspect such any licensed hospital, center or institution, or part thereof of any licensed hospital, center or institution; and the Director of Health secretary may revoke the license of any such hospital, center or institution, or part thereof of any hospital, center or institution, for good cause after reasonable notice to the superintendent or other person in charge thereof of the hospital, center or institution.
Any physician who shall sign signs a certificate respecting the mental condition of any person without having made the examination as provided for by this chapter, or shall make makes any statement in any such certificate maliciously for the purpose of having such person declared mentally ill, mentally retarded intellectually disabled or an inebriate, and any person who shall maliciously make makes application to any circuit court or mental hygiene commission for the purpose of having another person declared mentally ill, mentally retarded intellectually disabled, or an inebriate, shall be is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding $500, or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both fined and imprisoned at the discretion of the court.
§29-15-6. State agency for federal mental retardation intellectual disability program.
(a) Any person determined to be "mentally incompetent", "mentally retarded" an "intellectually disabled" or "mentally handicapped" and for such reason deemed to be in need of a guardian or committee pursuant to any order entered and in effect prior to before the effective date of this chapter is deemed to be a "protected person" within the meaning of this chapter, from and after its effective date, unless any such determination be revoked or otherwise modified.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to remove references to "mentally retarded" and "mental retardation" in healthcare-related legislation and replace those references with "intellectually disabled," "individual with an intellectual disability" and "intellectual disability.