Continued - BARBARA'S LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Barbara Evans Fleischauer served as Co-Chair of a subcommittee that worked on reform of statutes which regulate corporations. One of Barbara Fleischauer's friends and supporters, WVU College of Law Professor Ann Maxey, had worked for several years on a draft of the re-write, which streamlines and modernizes procedures for both profit and non-profit corporations. Unfortunately, Professor Maxey died suddenly of a brain tumor in 2002. Delegate Fleischauer was able to successfully steer passage of Professor Maxey's efforts by passing profit and nonprofit corporate overhaul legislation in 2003.

Environmental issues have always been high on Barbara Fleischauer's priority list. As a delegate, she was active in helping to defeat the so-called "Dirty Secrets Bill" which would have allowed corporations to refuse to disclose any information about investigations of environmental incidents. She was a soldier in the battle to limit the scope of mountain-top removal. Fearing what would later become the Enron crisis, Barbara Fleischauer also played an important role in the state's effort to derail electric utility deregulation.

Barbara Evans Fleischauer has received many awards in appreciation of her legislative service. Among the most prestigious accolades, Fleischauer received Legislator of the Year awards from both the National Association of Social Workers and the West Virginia Trial Lawyers, the Friends of Nursing award from the West Virginia Nurses Association and an award for Courage and Leadership from West Virginia FREE for the protection of reproductive rights. On its 25th anniversary, the West Virginia Women's Commission gave Fleischauer its "Guardian Angel" award. From 2000-2004, Barbara Fleischauer was the only legislator to receive a 100% rating from the West Virginia Sierra Club. In January, 2006 Barbara received the "Osteo Angel" Award to commemorate her long service on the Osteoporosis Advisory Board and her sponsorship of legislation that has allowed the Osteoporosis program within the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources to celebrate its ten-year anniversary.