West Virginia House Bill 2824 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: Introduced on March 5 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-05 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to procedures and protections for child witnesses in domestic relations, child abuse and neglect and criminal proceedings. The bill sets forth the rights of child witnesses. The bill establishes the procedure and safeguards to be used when taking testimony of a child witness. The bill permits a court in certain instances to permit a child witness to give testimony by closed-circuit television. The bill establishes the procedure to be used when taking testimony of a child witness by closed-circuit television. The bill protects recordings made of statements by child witnesses. The bill provides for confidentiality. The bill provides for instances when the child witness is also a victim. The bill permits a support person for a child witness. The bill repeals

Relating to procedures and protections for child witnesses in domestic relations

Del. Tiffany Lawrence [D]	Del. Linda Phillips [D]	Del. Josh Stowers [D]	Del. Justin Marcum [D]
Del. John Shott [R]	Del. Kelli Sobonya [R]	Del. Clif Moore [D]	Del. Doug Skaff [D]
Del. Meshea Poore [D]	Sen. Jason Barrett [R]	Del. Timothy Manchin [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-05	House	To House Judiciary
2013-03-05	House	Introduced in House
2013-03-05	House	To Judiciary
2013-03-05	House	Filed for introduction

SB461 (Same As) 2013-05-15 - Chapter 22, Acts, Regular Session, 2013

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
48	1	308	New Code	See Bill Text
48	1	309	New Code	See Bill Text
48	1	310	New Code	See Bill Text
48	1	311	New Code	See Bill Text
49	1A	1	New Code	See Bill Text
49	1A	2	New Code	See Bill Text
61	11	27	New Code	See Bill Text
61	11	28	New Code	See Bill Text
61	11	29	New Code	See Bill Text
61	11	30	New Code	See Bill Text
62	6B	2	Repealed Code	Citation Text
62	6B	3	Repealed Code	Citation Text
62	6B	4	Repealed Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2824&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2824%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=2824