Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2012/rs/com_amends/SB201%20SUB1.htm
Timestamp: 2018-01-20 07:58:59
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61']

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §61-12A-1, §61-12A-2, §61-12A-3, §61-12A-4, §61-12A-5, and §61-12A-6, all relating to the creation of the Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Fatality Review Team under the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; setting forth legislative findings; setting forth membership of the team and terms of office; setting forth responsibilities of the team; providing for certain actions the team may not take in exercising its duties; providing for an annual report to the Governor and Legislature and its contents; providing for confidentiality of the team’s proceedings, records and opinions; setting forth record-keeping requirements; authorizing access to certain records; requiring other state and local agencies to cooperate with the team; and granting rule-making authority.
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new article, designated §61-12A-1, §61-12A-2, §61-12A-3, §61-12A-4, §61-12A-5, and §61-12A-6 all to read as follows:
(c) With respect to all other appointments not specified herein, the Governor may make the appointments without nomination.
(4) Develop and implement standards for the uniform and consistent reporting of unintentional pharmaceutical drug overdose deaths by law enforcement or other emergency service responders; and
(3) information and records maintained by any state, county and local government agency, except as provided in subdivision (b)(4) in section three of this article.
(a) Proceedings, records and opinions of the Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Fatality Review Team are confidential and are not subject to discovery, subpoena or introduction into evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding. Nothing in this section limits or restricts the right to discover or use in any civil or criminal proceeding anything that is available from another source and entirely independent of the proceedings of the Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Fatality Review Team.
(a) The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, in consultation with the Unintentional Pharmaceutical Drug Overdose Fatality Review Team, shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code. Those rules shall include, at a minimum: