West Virginia Senate Bill 599 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: Introduced on March 14 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-14 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to require the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday. The bill requires transfer of juvenile in adult jurisdiction upon reaching eighteen years of age if he or she has either been convicted or is in a pretrial status and directs the Division of Juvenile Services to notify the circuit court of the age of a juvenile reaching the age of eighteen years of age. The bill authorizes the circuit court to conduct a hearing as to alternative placement and mandates that the position of victim be taken under consideration by the court in determining disposition or alternative placement. The bill prohibits juveniles that commit an adult offense while under the custody of the Division of Juvenile Services from returning to the placement in a juvenile facility if the juvenile has attained the age of eighteen years. Finally, the bill requires the court to conduct a hearing as to placement of a juvenile that has turned eighteen years of age and is remanded to the custody of the Division of Juvenile Services after completion of an adult sentence.

Requiring transfer of juvenile to correctional facility or regional jail on age 18

Sen. Ronald Miller [D]	Sen. Robert Beach [D]	Sen. Glenn Jeffries [R]	Sen. Robert Karnes [R]
Sen. Corey Palumbo [D]	Sen. Robert Plymale [D]	Sen. Roman Prezioso [D]	Sen. Michael Romano [D]
Sen. Ron Stollings [D]	Sen. John Unger [D]	Sen. Sue Cline [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-14	Senate	To Judiciary
2017-03-14	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2017-03-14	Senate	To Judiciary then Finance
2017-03-14	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2558 (Similar To) 2017-02-20 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
49	4	720	Amended Code	Citation Text
49	4	722	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=599&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb599%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=599