West Virginia Senate Bill 88 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-01-13 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to provide that any employee of the Division of Corrections, the Division of Juvenile Services and the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority who engages in sexual intercourse, sexual intrusion or sexual contact with an inmate is guilty of a felony and, shall be confined for not less than one year nor more than five years or fined not more than $5,000. The bill further provides that for the purposes of this section, properly administered pat-downs, strip searches or other security measures do not constitute sexual contact.

Increasing penalties for correctional employee engaging in sexual relations with incarcerated person

Sen. Clark Barnes [R]	Sen. Mike Hall [R]	Sen. Orphy Klempa [D]	Sen. William Laird [D]
Sen. Ronald Miller [D]	Sen. Robert Plymale [D]	Sen. Mark Wills [D]	Sen. Jack Yost [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-01-13		To Judiciary
2011-01-13		Introduced in Senate
2011-01-13		To Judiciary then Finance
2011-01-13		Filed for introduction

HB2158 (Similar To) 2011-01-12 - To House Judiciary
HB2576 (Same As) 2011-01-19 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
61	8B	10	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=88&year=2011&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb88%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=88
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb88%20intr.htm&yr=&sesstype=&i=88