West Virginia Code 16-33-7 – Establishment of breast and cervical cancer diagnostic and treatment fund
(a) There is hereby established the breast and cervical cancer diagnostic and treatment fund which shall provide financial assistance for the medical care of indigent patients for diagnostic and treatment services for breast and cervical cancer.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 16-33-7
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Bureau: means the state bureau of public health established pursuant to the provisions of article one of this chapter. See West Virginia Code 16-33-2
- Department: means the Department of Health and Human Resources. See West Virginia Code 16-33-2
- Fund: means the breast and cervical cancer diagnostic and treatment fund. See West Virginia Code 16-33-2
- Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
(b) The fund may be comprised of moneys appropriated to the fund by the Legislature, allocated to the fund by the federal government and all other sums designated for deposit in the fund from any source, public or private.
(c) The fund shall be administered by the office of maternal and child health within the bureau of public health. The bureau shall file an annual report with the Joint Committee on Government and Finance describing the operation and status of the fund, acts, policies, practices or procedures of the bureau in implementing the provisions of this article, and the bureau's recommendations as to changes in law or policy which it deems necessary or appropriate.
(d) Nothing in this article may be construed or interpreted to mean that covered diagnostic and treatment services are required to be provided by the bureau or the department. Nothing in this article shall be construed to mandate funding for the breast and cervical diagnostic and treatment fund or to require any appropriation by the Legislature to the fund.