West Virginia House Bill 4578 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on March 1 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-11 - Senate requests House to concur
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create a criminal offense to hold all participants involved in a conspiracy to violate the drug laws responsible. The bill establishes sentences based upon quantities for certain controlled substances, and allows all substances possessed or delivered among the members of the conspiracy to be attributed to a defendant. This bill was recommended for introduction by the Joint Committee on the Judiciary that met during the 2015-2016 Interim session. This bill was recommended for introduction by the following House members of the Joint Interim Committee on the Judiciary: Delegates Shott, Azinger, Byrd, Deem, Fleischauer, Folk, Foster, Hanshaw, Hicks, lreland, Kessinger, McCuskey, Moore, Overington, Rowe, Shaffer, Skinner, Sobonya, Summers, Weld, & B. White.

Creating a criminal offense of conspiracy to violate the drug laws

Sen. Ryan Weld [R]	Del. Andrew Byrd [D]	Del. Kelli Sobonya [R]	Del. Brad White [R]
Del. Geoff Foster [R]	Del. Clif Moore [D]	Del. Kenneth Hicks [D]	Del. Don Perdue [D]
Del. Cindy Frich [R]

2016-03-01 - House - Passed House (Roll No. 305) (Y: 85 N: 15 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-11	Senate	Senate requests House to concur
2016-03-11	Senate	Kessler Title amendment adopted
2016-03-11	Senate	Judiciary Title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
2016-03-11	Senate	Read 3rd time
2016-03-11	Senate	On 3rd reading
2016-03-10	Senate	Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
2016-03-10	Senate	Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
2016-03-10	Senate	Committee Amendment Reported
2016-03-10	Senate	Read 2nd time
2016-03-09	Senate	Laid over on 2nd reading 3/9/16
2016-03-09	Senate	Committee Amendment Reported
2016-03-09	Senate	Read 2nd time
2016-03-09	Senate	On 2nd reading
2016-03-08	Senate	Read 1st time
2016-03-08	Senate	Immediate consideration
2016-03-08	Senate	Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment
2016-03-02	Senate	To Judiciary
2016-03-02	Senate	To Judiciary
2016-03-02	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2016-03-02	Senate	House Message received
2016-03-01	House	Communicated to Senate
2016-03-01	House	Passed House (Roll No. 305)
2016-03-01	House	Read 3rd time
2016-03-01	House	On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
2016-02-29	House	Read 2nd time
2016-02-29	House	On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
2016-02-27	House	Read 1st time
2016-02-27	House	On 1st reading, Special Calendar
2016-02-26	House	Do pass
2016-02-19	House	To House Judiciary
2016-02-19	House	Do pass, but first to Judiciary
2016-02-17	House	To House Select Committee on Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
2016-02-17	House	Introduced in House
2016-02-17	House	To Select Committee on Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then Judiciary
2016-02-17	House	Filed for introduction

SB405 (Similar To) 2016-01-27 - To Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
60A	4	414	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4578&year=2016&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4578%20intr.htm&yr=2016&sesstype=RS&i=4578
Roll Call	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2016/RS/votes/house/00305.pdf