Bill Text: WV HB3215 | 2021 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Amending the requirements to become an elected prosecutor
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-20 - Chapter 109, Acts, Regular Session, 2021 [HB3215 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2021-HB3215-Enrolled.html
WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
ENROLLED
Committee Substitute
for
House Bill 3215
By Delegates Brown and Pinson
[Passed April 10, 2021; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §7-4-1a, relating to eligibility of prosecuting attorneys; and requiring a person to be licensed as an attorney in the State of West Virginia at the time of filing for office as a candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 4. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, REWARDS, AND LEGAL ADVICE.
§7-4-1a. Eligibility of prosecuting attorneys.
To be eligible to be a candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney, a person shall be a duly licensed attorney in the State of West Virginia at the time of his or her filing for office.
The Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills hereby certifies that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.
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Chairman, House Committee
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Chairman, Senate Committee
Originating in the House.
In effect ninety days from passage.
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Clerk of the House of Delegates
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Clerk of the Senate
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Speaker of the House of Delegates
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President of the Senate
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The within ................................................... this the...........................................
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Governor
