West Virginia House Bill 3044 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: Engrossed on March 2 2011 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-03 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [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.

Relating to civil 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. Daniel Poling [D]	Del. Doug Skaff [D]	Del. Kelli Sobonya [R]

2011-03-02 - House - Passage (Y: 79 N: 21 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-03		To Judiciary
2011-03-03		Introduced in Senate
2011-03-02		Communicated to Senate
2011-03-02		Passed House (Roll No. 206)
2011-03-02		Read 3rd time
2011-03-02		On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
2011-03-01		Read 2nd time
2011-03-01		From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
2011-02-28		Read 1st time
2011-02-28		Immediate consideration
2011-02-28		By substitute, do pass
2011-02-08		To House Finance
2011-02-08		With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance
2011-02-07		To House Judiciary
2011-02-07		Introduced in House
2011-02-07		To Judiciary then Finance
2011-02-07		Filed for introduction

SB223 (Similar To) 2011-01-20 - To Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
61	14	1	Amended Code	Citation Text
61	14	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
61	14	3	Amended Code	Citation Text
61	14	4	Amended Code	Citation Text
61	14	5	Amended Code	Citation Text
61	14	6	Amended Code	Citation Text
61	14	7	Amended Code	Citation Text
61	14	8	Amended Code	Citation Text
61	14	9	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3044&year=2011&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3044%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3044
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3044%20SUB.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3044
Roll Call	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bulletin_Board/2011/RS/House/Votes/00206.pdf