Bill Text: WV SB678 | 2020 | Regular Session | Enrolled


Bill Title: Waiving fines and fees for completing Getting Over Addicted Lifestyles Successfully Program

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2020-04-14 - Chapter 61, Acts, Regular Session, 2020 [SB678 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2020-SB678-Enrolled.html

WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Enrolled

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 678

Senators Clements, Baldwin, Jeffries, Pitsenbarger, Roberts, Trump, Cline, Romano, and Woelfel, original sponsors

[Passed March 6, 2020; in effect 90 days from passage]

 

 

AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §15A-5-10, relating to requiring that successful completion of the Getting Over Addicted Lifestyles Successfully Program be deemed as successful completion of the Division of Motor Vehicles’ DUI Safety and Treatment Program; requiring the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide each individual that completes the Getting Over Addicted Lifestyles Successfully Program with a certificate of completion; and requiring the Division of Motor Vehicles to accept the certificate of completion as evidence of completion of the DUI Safety and Treatment Program.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


ARTICLE 5. Bureau of Prisons and Jails.

 §15A-5-10. Completing the GOALS Program satisfies the requirements for the DUI Safety and Treatment Program.


Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, any individual committed to the custody of the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation who successfully completes the Getting Over Addictive Lifestyles Successfully Program shall be deemed to have also completed the West Virginia DUI Safety and Treatment Program discussed in §17C-5A-3 of this code for purposes of reinstatement of driving privileges. 

The Commissioner of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide each individual that completes the Getting Over Addictive Lifestyles Successfully Program with a certificate of completion.  Upon completion of the Getting Over Addictive Lifestyles Successfully Program, the individual shall provide the certificate of completion to the Division of Motor Vehicles.  The Division of Motor Vehicles shall accept the certificate as evidence of completion of the DUI Safety and Treatment Program.

 

 

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