West Virginia House Bill 4242 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-01-20 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to criminalize the failure of a custodian to report to law-enforcement officials a missing child. The penalties vary based on age and circumstances with enhanced penalties for failure to report when the custodian knows the childs disappearance creates a risk or harm or death to the child, or when a custodian fails to report the missing child to conceal criminal conduct. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored. This bill was recommended for introduction and passage during the 2012 Regular Session of the Legislature by the Select Committee on Children, Juveniles and Other Issues.

Establishing criminal penalties for failure to report a missing child by the child's custodian

Del. Anthony Barill [D]	Del. Bonnie Brown [D]	Del. Michael Ferro [D]	Del. Barbara Fleischauer [D]
Del. Ronald Fragale [D]	Del. John Frazier [D]	Del. Linda Longstreth [D]	Del. Virginia Mahan [D]
Del. Linda Phillips [D]	Del. Josh Stowers [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-20		To House Judiciary
2012-01-20		Introduced in House
2012-01-20		To Judiciary then Finance
2012-01-20		Filed for introduction

SB352 (Same As) 2012-01-19 - To Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
61	2	31	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4242&year=2012&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4242%20intr.htm&yr=2012&sesstype=RS&i=4242