SB 664 – West Virginia

Status: Enacted
Year Introduced: 2020
Link: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=664&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill

AN ACT to amend and reenact §16-30-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to adding a physician’s assistant to the list of medical professionals able to determine an individual lacks capacity; updating terminology related to advanced practice registered nurses; removing terminology related to physicians; and permitting a psychologist, physician’s assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse to inform a person, if conscious, that he or she has been determined to be incapacitated.


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