Bill Amendment: WV HB5520 | 2024 | Regular Session

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Bill Title: Relating to juvenile competency

Status: 2024-04-22 - Chapter 50, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 [HB5520 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5520-hb5520_sfat_trump_1_3-4_adopted.html

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HB5520 SFAT Trump #1 3-4

Smith  7883

 

Senator Trump moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill 5520— A Bill to amend and reenact §49-4-727 and §49-4-729 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to juvenile competency; modifying the presumption of competence of a child 13 and over; modifying the presumption of incompetence  to age 12 and under; clarifying that the presumption applies to the adjudicatory phase of the case and authorizing pre-adjudicatory procedures; allowing cases where the juvenile is presumed to be competent to proceed up to adjudication but no further if his or her competency is at issue.

 

 

 

 

Adopted

Rejected