Designates a psychiatric hospital as a state-designated facility for treating civil and forensic patients.
This bill amends the Code of West Virginia to designate a psychiatric hospital that treats exclusively civil and forensic patients committed to it from the state or from state hospitals as a state-designated hospital. The bill specifies that a licensed psychiatric hospital with an average annual inpatient census patient mix of greater than 95 percent of court-ordered forensic and civil involuntary commitments from state custody or from a state-owned hospital qualifies as a "state-designated facility." The bill also includes provisions for tax rates on eligible hospitals and the transfer of.
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