Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 7A > Article 3 - Initiating Consolidation and Establishing Charter Review Committee

• child: means an individual who meets one of the following conditions:

  (A) Is under thirteen years of age. See West Virginia Code 49-1-202

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Home-based family preservation services: means services dispensed by the Department of Health and Human Resources or by another person, association, or group who has contracted with that division to dispense services when those services are intended to stabilize and maintain the natural or surrogate family in order to prevent the placement of children in substitute care. See West Virginia Code 49-1-206
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Placement: means any temporary or permanent placement of a child who is in the custody of the state in any foster home, kinship parent home, group home, or other facility or residence. See West Virginia Code 49-1-206
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.