West Virginia House Bill 2713 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-01-21 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to establish a civil forfeiture procedure by which property used to facilitate crimes of fraud or traceable as proceeds from crimes of fraud may be seized by the state. The procedures and protections established by this bill include due process measures and notice requirements which are designed to protect the interests of the affected property owners, including innocent persons, lienholders and bona fide third party transfers. The bill also provides for the disposition forfeited property, and includes provisions by which for a portion of the forfeited proceeds would be applied to satisfy orders of restitution or recovery to victims of the fraudulent activity. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored. This bill was recommended for introduction and passage during the Regular Session of the 2011 Legislature by the Joint Committee on the Judiciary.

Relating to civil and criminal forfeiture actions related to criminal activity

Del. Bonnie Brown [D]	Sen. Michael Caputo [D]	Del. John Ellem [R]	Del. John Frazier [D]
Sen. Bill Hamilton [R]	Del. Linda Longstreth [D]	Del. Tim Miley [D]	Del. Clif Moore [D]
Del. Kelli Sobonya [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-01-21		To House Judiciary
2011-01-21		Introduced in House
2011-01-21		To Judiciary then Finance
2011-01-21		Filed for introduction

SB223 (Same As) 2011-01-20 - To Judiciary

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Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2713&year=2011&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2713%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2713
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2713%20intr.htm&yr=&sesstype=&i=2713