West Virginia Senate Bill 204 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 10 2008 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2008-01-10 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee

The purpose of the bill is to create the Indigent Defense Commission to assist Public Defender Services with regard to the general policies and procedures of the agency and to provide additional oversight of the costs and administration of the public defender corporations; to require corporations to submit monthly reports on billable and nonbillable time to the agency; to authorize the agency to create additional corporations in a judicial circuit with an active corporation, activate corporations, and require the merger of existing corporations; to establish an order of preference for the appointment of panel attorneys; to modify requirements for funding applications; to modify compensable expenses; and to authorize the executive director to establish guidelines for submission of vouchers and claims.

Creating Indigent Defense Commission

Sen. Donald Caruth [R]

Sen. Earl Tomblin [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-01-10		To Judiciary
2008-01-10		To Judiciary
2008-01-10		Introduced in Senate
2008-01-10		To Judiciary
2008-01-10		Filed for introduction

HB4022 (Same As) 2010-01-21 - To House Finance

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=204&year=2008&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill