West Virginia House Bill 4010 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 30 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-31 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to provide that a religious representative or spiritual assembly, church or religious organization is not required to solemnize a marriage and a spiritual assembly, church or religious organization is not required to allow any building or property of the organization to be used to host a marriage ceremony if the marriage does not conform to the religious representative or spiritual assembly, church or religious organization’s sincerely held religious beliefs, to provide that a religious representative or spiritual assembly, church or religious organization is not subject to civil or criminal liability for such a denial, and to provide that the state and political subdivisions may not penalize or withhold benefits to any religious representative or spiritual assembly, church or religious organization for such a denial.

Providing no requirement to perform or host a marriage ceremony that does not conform to sincerely held religious beliefs

Del. Roland Jennings [R]	Del. Guy Ward [R]	Del. Allen Evans [R]	Del. Ray Hollen [R]
Del. Tom Fast [R]	Del. George Ambler [R]	Sen. Patrick Martin [R]	Del. Anthony Paynter [R]
Del. Ruth Rowan [R]	Del. Dianna Graves [R]	Del. Mark Zatezalo [R]

2018-01-30 - House - Passed House (Roll No. 30) (Y: 90 N: 5 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-31	Senate	To Judiciary
2018-01-31	Senate	To Judiciary
2018-01-31	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2018-01-31	Senate	House Message received
2018-01-30	House	Communicated to Senate
2018-01-30	House	Passed House (Roll No. 30)
2018-01-30	House	Read 3rd time
2018-01-30	House	On 3rd reading, House Calendar
2018-01-29	House	Read 2nd time
2018-01-29	House	On 2nd reading, House Calendar
2018-01-26	House	Read 1st time
2018-01-26	House	On 1st reading, House Calendar
2018-01-25	House	Do pass
2018-01-12	House	To House Judiciary
2018-01-12	House	Introduced in House
2018-01-12	House	To Judiciary
2018-01-12	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
48	2	406	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4010&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4010%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4010
Roll Call	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2018/RS/votes/house/00030.pdf