WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced Senate Bill 492
By Senator Takubo [Introduced January 18, 2024; referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources]
 Intr SB 2024R3007
1 A BILL to amend and reenact §16-3-4a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to
2 allowing influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified
3 facilities on a voluntary basis based upon recommendations of the Center for Disease
4 Control.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 3. PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE AND OTHER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
§16-3-4a. Influenza Immunizations.
1 (a) A hospital licensed pursuant to the provisions of article five-b of this chapter shall offer
2 to an inpatient who is sixty-five 50 years of age or older an influenza immunization prior to
3 discharge from October 1 of every year and continuing through March 1 of the following year.
4 (b) The immunizations may not be are not required to be offered in cases where the
5 immunization is contraindicated.
6 (c) The requirements of this section are subject to the availability for sufficient influenza
7 immunizations.
8 (d) Nothing in this section may be construed to require an influenza immunization as a
9 condition of receiving any type of service or as a condition of discharge.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified facilities on a voluntary basis based upon recommendations of
the Center for Disease Control.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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Statutes affected:
Introduced Version: 16-3-4a