reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
WV Code § 16-19-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 19. Anatomical Gift Act|§16-19-15. Coordination of Procurement and Use

Each hospital licensed in this state shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordinating procurement and use of anatomical gifts.
WV Code § 16-19-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 19. Anatomical Gift Act|§16-19-16. Prohibited Acts; Sale or Purchase of Parts Prohibited

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person who knowingly buys or sells, for valuable consideration, a part for transplantation or therapy is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $50 or imprisoned in a state correctional facility for a term of not more than five years, or both fined and imprisoned.(b) A person who, in order to obtain a financial gain, intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces or obliterates a document of gift, an amendment or revocation of a document of gift or a refusal is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned in a state correctional facility for a term of not more than five years.(c) Nothing in this section prohibits a person from charging reasonable amounts for the costs of removing, processing, preserving, quality control, storing, transporting, implanting or disposing of a part.
WV Code § 16-19-17 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 19. Anatomical Gift Act|§16-19-17. Immunity

(a) A person, including a medical examiner, who acts in accordance with this article or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state, or attempts in good faith to do so, is not liable for the act in a civil action, criminal prosecution or administrative proceeding.(b) Neither the person making an anatomical gift nor the donor's estate is liable for any injury or damage that results from the making or use of the gift.(c) In determining whether an anatomical gift has been made, amended or revoked under this article, a person to whom a gift passes may rely upon an individual's representations that he or she is the donor or a person authorized to make a gift of the body or part pursuant to subsection (a), section nine of this article, unless the person to whom the gift may pass knows that the representation is untrue.
WV Code § 16-19-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 19. Anatomical Gift Act|§16-19-18. Law Governing Validity; Choice of Law as to Execution of Document of Gift; Presumption of Validity

(a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:(1) This article;(2) The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or(3) The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.(b) If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.(c) A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.
WV Code § 16-19-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 19. Anatomical Gift Act|§16-19-19. Donor Registry

(a) The Division of Motor Vehicles may establish or contract for the establishment of a donor registry.(b) The Division of Motor Vehicles shall cooperate with a person that administers any donor registry established or contracted for pursuant to this section or recognized for the purpose of transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donors making, amendment to, or revocation of an anatomical gift.(c) The Division of Natural Resources shall provide all relevant information regarding a donors making, amendment to, or revocation of an anatomical gift to a donor registry established or contracted for pursuant to this section.(d) A donor registry must:(1) Allow a donor or person authorized under §16-19-4 of this code to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift;(2) Be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; and(3) Be accessible for purposes of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection 24 hours a day, seven days a week.(e) Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or person that made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift.(f) The Director of the Division of Natural Resources shall provide information regarding the existence of the anatomical organ donation program, the procedures for a hunting or fishing license applicant to indicate his or her desire to make an anatomical gift, and having document of gift affixed to his or her hunting or fishing license pursuant to this article.(g) The Division of Natural Resources shall be reimbursed for all costs relating to the creation and administration of an anatomical gift record by the Center for Organ Recovery and Education: Provided, That the division is absolved of all responsibilities to collect and provide donor registrant records pursuant to this article if not reimbursed according to this subsection.(h) This section does not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the state. Any private donor registry must comply with subsections (d) and (e) of this section.
WV Code § 16-19-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 19. Anatomical Gift Act|§16-19-20. Effect of Anatomical Gift on Advance Health-Care Directive

(a) In this section:(1) "Advance health-care directive" means a medical power of attorney or a record signed or authorized by a prospective donor containing the prospective donor's direction concerning a health-care decision for the prospective donor.(2) "Declaration" means a record signed by a prospective donor specifying the circumstances under which a life support system may be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor.(3) "Health-care decision" means any decision regarding the health care of the prospective donor.(b) If a prospective donor has a declaration or advance health care directive, the terms of which are in conflict with the express or implied terms of a potential anatomical gift with regard to administration of measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part for transplantation or therapy, the attending physician and the prospective donor shall confer to resolve the conflict.(1) If the prospective donor is incapable of resolving the conflict, an agent acting under the prospective donor's declaration or directive, or, if none or the agent is not reasonably available, another person authorized by law other than this article to make health-care decisions on behalf of the prospective donor, shall act for the donor to resolve the conflict as quickly as possible.(2) A procurement organization and any person authorized to make an anatomical gift on behalf of a prospective donor pursuant to section nine of this article shall provide any information relevant to the resolution of the conflict.(3) Pending resolution of the conflict, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part may not be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor unless doing so is contraindicated by appropriate end-of-life care.
WV Code § 16-19-21 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 19. Anatomical Gift Act|§16-19-21. Cooperation Between Medical Examiner and Procurement Organization

(a) A medical examiner shall cooperate with a procurement organization to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education.(b) If a medical examiner receives notice from a procurement organization that an anatomical gift was or might have been made with respect to a decedent whose body is in the custody of the medical examiner, the medical examiner shall endeavor to conduct a post-mortem examination in a manner and within a period compatible with its preservation for the purposes of the gift, unless the medical examiner denies recovery in accordance with section twenty-two of this article.(c) While the decedent's body is in the custody of a medical examiner, a part may not be removed for transplantation, therapy, research or education or the body delivered for research and education unless the part or the body is the subject of an anatomical gift. This subsection does not preclude a medical examiner from performing a medicolegal investigation upon the decedent's body or parts while in his or her custody.
WV Code § 16-19-23 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 19. Anatomical Gift Act|§16-19-23. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

This act modifies, limits and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. §7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit or supersede Section 101(a) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001, or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b).
WV Code § 16-21-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 21. Blood Donations|§16-21-1. Donations by Seventeen Year Old Minors Without Parental Permission

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person seventeen years of age or older may donate blood without the permission or authorization of a parent or guardian and any person sixteen years of age may donate blood with the permission or authorization of a parent or legal guardian: Provided, That a parent or guardian may not be liable for any medical expense which may occur as a result of a minor donating blood under the provisions of this section: Provided, however, That nothing herein may be construed as permitting a minor of age seventeen or older, or a minor of age sixteen, to give blood for compensation in any form.
WV Code § 16-22-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22. Detection and Control of Phenylketonuria, Galactosemia, Hypothyroidism, and Certain Other Diseases in Newborn Children|§16-22-1. Findings

The Legislature finds that phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and certain other diseases are usually associated with intellectual disability or other severe health hazards. Laboratory tests are readily available to aid in the detection of these diseases and hazards to the health of those suffering from these diseases may be lessened or prevented by early detection and treatment. Damage from these diseases, if untreated in the early months of life, is usually rapid and not appreciably affected by treatment.
WV Code § 16-22-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22. Detection and Control of Phenylketonuria, Galactosemia, Hypothyroidism, and Certain Other Diseases in Newborn Children|§16-22-2. Program to Combat Intellectual Disability or Other Severe Health Hazards; Rules; Facilities for Making Tests

The State Bureau of Public Health is authorized to establish and carry out a program designed to combat intellectual disability or other severe health hazards in our state's population due to phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and certain other diseases specified by the State Public Health Commissioner, and may adopt reasonable rules and regulations necessary to carry out such a program. The Bureau of Public Health shall establish and maintain facilities at its state hygienic laboratory for testing specimens for the detection of phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and certain other diseases specified by the State Public Health Commissioner. Tests shall be made by such laboratory of specimens upon request by physicians, hospital medical personnel and other individuals attending newborn infants. The State Bureau of Public Health is authorized to establish additional laboratories throughout the state to perform tests for the detection of phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and certain other diseases specified by the State Public Health Commissioner.
WV Code § 16-22-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22. Detection and Control of Phenylketonuria, Galactosemia, Hypothyroidism, and Certain Other Diseases in Newborn Children|§16-22-3. Tests for Diseases Specified by the State Public Health Commissioner; Reports; Assistance to Afflicted Children; Public Health Commissioner to Propose Rules

(a) The hospital or birthing center in which an infant is born, the parents or legal guardians, the physician attending a newborn child, or any person attending a newborn child not under the care of a physician shall require and ensure that each such child be tested for phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, sickle cell anemia and certain other diseases specified by the Bureau for Public Health. The Bureau for Public Health shall also require testing for congenital adrenal hyperplasia, cystic fibrosis and biotinidase deficiency. No later than July 1, 2008, the Bureau for Public Health shall also require testing for isovaleric acidemia, glutaric acidemia type I, 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaric aciduria, multiple carboxylase deficiency, methylmalonic acidemia-mutase deficiency form, 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency, methylmalonic acidemia, Cbl A and Cbl B forms, propionic acidemia, beta-ketothiolase deficiency, medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, long-chain hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, trifunctional protein deficiency, carnitine uptake defeat, maple syrup urine disease, homocystinuria, citrullinemia type I, argininosuccinate acidemia, tyrosinemia type I, hemoglobin S/Beta-thalassemia, sickle C disease and hearing deficiency.(b) A positive result on any test specified in subsection (a) of this section, or a positive result for any other diseases specified by the Bureau for Public Health, shall be promptly reported to the Bureau for Public Health by the director of the laboratory performing such test.(c) Newborn screenings shall be considered a covered benefit reimbursed to the birthing facilities by Public Employees Insurance Agency, the state Children's Health Insurance Program, the Medicaid program and all health insurers whose benefit package includes pregnancy coverage and who are licensed under chapter thirty-three of this code.(d) The Bureau for Public Health shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine of this code. These legislative rules shall include:(1) A means for the Bureau for Public Health, in cooperation with other state agencies, and with attending physicians, to provide medical, dietary and related assistance to children determined to be afflicted with any disease specified in subsection (a) of this section and certain other diseases specified by the Bureau for Public Health; and(2) A means for payment for the screening provided for in this section; and(3) Anything further considered necessary by the Bureau for Public Health to implement the provisions of this section.
WV Code § 16-22-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22. Detection and Control of Phenylketonuria, Galactosemia, Hypothyroidism, and Certain Other Diseases in Newborn Children|§16-22-4. Penalties for Violating Provisions of Article

Any person violating the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $50. Violation of each such provision shall be considered a separate offense.
WV Code § 16-22-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22. Detection and Control of Phenylketonuria, Galactosemia, Hypothyroidism, and Certain Other Diseases in Newborn Children|§16-22-5. Severability

If any provision or item of this article or application thereof is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions, items or applications of this article.
WV Code § 16-22-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22. Detection and Control of Phenylketonuria, Galactosemia, Hypothyroidism, and Certain Other Diseases in Newborn Children|§16-22-6. Effective Date

The effective date of this article shall be July 1, 1965.
WV Code § 16-22A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22A. Testing of Newborn Infants for Hearing Impairments|§16-22A-1. Testing Required

The physician or midwife in attendance at, or present immediately after, a live birth shall perform, or cause to be performed, a test for hearing loss in the infant unless the infant's parents refuse under subsection (c), section three of this article to have the testing performed. For any infant delivered at a nonlicensed facility, including home births, the physician or other health care provider shall inform the parents of the need to obtain testing within the first month of life. The director of the division of health shall prescribe the test or tests to be administered in accordance with this article.
WV Code § 16-22A-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22A. Testing of Newborn Infants for Hearing Impairments|§16-22A-2. Rule Making Authorized

The director of the division of health shall propose legislative rules for promulgation in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to: (1) Establish a reasonable fee schedule for tests administered pursuant to this article, which shall be used to cover program costs not otherwise covered by federal grant funds specifically secured for this purpose; (2) establish a cost-effective testing protocol based upon available technology and national standards; (3) establish reporting and referral requirements; and (4) establish a date for implementation of the testing protocol, which shall not be later than July 1, 1999.
WV Code § 16-22A-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22A. Testing of Newborn Infants for Hearing Impairments|§16-22A-3. Fees for Testing; Payment of Same

(a) Testing required under this article shall be a covered benefit reimbursable by all health insurers except for health insurers that offer only supplemental coverage policies or policies which cover only specified diseases. All policies issued pursuant to articles fifteen, sixteen, twenty-four and twenty-five-a of chapter thirty-three of this code shall provide coverage for the testing required under this article.(b) The Department of Health and Human Resources shall pay for testing required under this article when the newborn infant is eligible for medical assistance under the provisions of section twelve, article five, chapter nine of this code.(c) In the absence of a third-party payor, the parents of a newborn infant shall be informed of the testing availability and its costs and they may refuse to have the testing performed. Charges for the testing required under this article shall be paid by the hospital or other health care facility where the infant's birth occurred: Provided, That nothing contained in this section may be construed to preclude the hospital or other health care facility from billing the infant's parents directly.
WV Code § 16-22A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22A. Testing of Newborn Infants for Hearing Impairments|§16-22A-4. Hearing Impairment Testing Advisory Committee Established

(a) There is hereby established a West Virginia hearing difficulties testing advisory committee which shall advise the Director of the Division of Health regarding the protocol, validity, monitoring and cost of testing procedures required under this article. This committee is to meet four times per year for the initial two years and on the call of the director thereafter. The director shall serve as the chair and shall appoint 12 members, one representing each of the following groups:(1) A representative of the health insurance industry;(2) An otolaryngologist or otologist;(3) An audiologist with experience in evaluating infants;(4) A neonatologist;(5) A pediatrician;(6) A hospital administrator;(7) A speech or language pathologist;(8) A teacher or administrative representative from the West Virginia school of the deaf;(9) A parent of a deaf or hard of hearing child;(10) A representative from the office of early intervention services within the Department of Health and Human Resources;(11) A representative from the state Department of Education; and(12) A representative from the West Virginia commission for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.(b) Members of this advisory committee shall serve without compensation. A majority of members constitutes a quorum for the transaction of all business. Members shall serve for two-year terms and may not serve for more than two consecutive terms.
WV Code § 16-22B-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 22B. Birth Score Program|§16-22B-1. Legislative Findings; Intent; Purpose

(a) The Legislature hereby finds that until 1984, West Virginia had one of the highest rates of postneonatal mortality in the United States, which is defined as infants dying between one month and one year of age. In the early 1980s, studies in West Virginia showed that infants at greatest risk of dying during the first year after birth had poor attendance at regular physician visits and often received minimal health care. The system for assessing infants at risk for postneonatal mortality, debilitating conditions and developmental delays was erratic and many West Virginia physicians were poorly trained about risk assessment. Uniform guidelines for at-risk infants to enter care did not exist.(b) In 1985, the birth scoring system, a cooperative effort between the division of health and the West Virginia University department of pediatrics was initiated. The goals of the scoring system were: (1) To identify newborns at greatest risk for death between one month and one year of age; and (2) to link high risk infants with physicians for close follow-up during the first year of life.(c) Since its inception, the birth scoring system has been expanded to identify and link infants at risk for debilitating conditions and developmental delays with necessary and available services. The program has been greatly successful in identifying at-risk newborns and in obtaining appropriate medical care for those infants.(d) With the success of the birth scoring system at reducing postneonatal mortality rates in the state, it is the intention of the Legislature to establish the birth score system as a universal, preventive program to be enacted at the delivery of each newborn in the state. The purpose of this article is to ensure that all of the state's birthing hospitals and facilities adopt and implement this prevention program.