| WV | HB2217 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to define the appropriate penalties for conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree, conspiracy to commit murder in the second degree, and conspiracy to commit voluntary manslaughter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal |
| WV | HB2066 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a felony offense of damaging, destroying, or stealing equipment used by first responders in their duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal |
| WV | HB2123 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian, custodian, or person in a position of trust in relation to a child for child abuse resulting in injury and child abuse or neglect creating risk of injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal |
| WV | SB196 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to enhance the penalties for drug offenses and to match the federal drug offenses penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal |
| WV | SB198 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the criminal offenses of creating, producing, distributing, or possessing with intent to distribute artificial intelligence-created visual depictions of child pornography when no actual minor is depicted; to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal |
| WV | HB2360 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal |
| WV | HB2358 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to impose deadlines for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to perform an autopsy and provide a copy of the autopsy report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal |
| WV | HB2434 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Stop Squatters Act; providing a limited alternative remedy to remove unauthorized persons from residential and commercial real properties. The bill also establishes criminal offenses and penalties for inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal |
| WV | HB2871 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to rename the crime of negligent homicide; create new crimes; clarify a victim includes an embryo or fetus; and create criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal |
| WV | HB3164 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the fee from $75 to $250 for registration by a person required to be placed on the Central Abuse Registry and the Sex Offender Registration Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-12
Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal |
| WV | HB2634 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase penalties related to child sexual assault and sexual abuse; to increase penalties for distributing, possessing and transporting material depicting a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct; and to clarify th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB904 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the duties and responsibilities of the Secretary of the Department of Health, the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health, and the state health officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB3167 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enhance and improve child well-being by requiring a hair follicle drug test of a substantiated child abuser before restoring visitation rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
On 2nd reading, rereferred to Judiciary |
| WV | SB864 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the inference of criminal intent in a burglary prosecution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2551 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the criminal penalties for the misdemeanor offense of negligently permitting livestock to run at large and trespass on the property of other landowners which injures a person or destroys the property of another...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3189 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add federal correctional institutions to the list of correctional facilities in which is a criminal offense to deliver any thing unlawfully to a person in custody or confined therein.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2892 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit pedestrians from standing in roadways or right of ways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2958 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify what constitutes trespassing at an institution of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB3289 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize graduation from a drug court program as an alternative prerequisite to expungement of criminal records relating to certain criminal convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB721 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and dogs while hunting; to add to the definition of "critical infrastructure" certain licensed or commercial livestock and poultry facilities to protect them from unauthoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB2206 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase penalties for human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
To House Courts Committee |
| WV | SB138 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create second and third offenses for fleeing from an officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor 3/24/2025 |
| WV | SB240 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the crimes of sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion; defines terms; establishes elements of sexual extortion and aggravated sexual extortion; and establishes criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
Approved by Governor 3/24/2025 |
| WV | SB893 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the offense of assault upon a service animal and establish penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB928 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the restriction to carry a firearm on the state capitol complex grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB3190 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the offense of public intoxication to persons intoxicated by controlled substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB598 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit judges to refer parents who knowingly makes a false accusation of child abuse or neglect or domestic violence during a child custody proceeding to the appropriate prosecuting authority to determine whether crimin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB847 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate provisions limiting the number of investigators in the criminal investigation division of the Tax Division and provide effective dates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB838 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit law enforcement officers from placing a surveillance camera or game camera on certain private land; providing an exception; and defining "private land".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB472 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require transparency from the Department of Human Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2618 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant an automatic restoration of Second Amendment rights upon completion of a sentence and any other court-ordered penalties, restitution, or fines for those convicted of nonviolent felonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3116 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand definitions of certain relatives under the statute governing incest to include aunts and uncles by marriage, and aunts and uncles in same-sex marriages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3169 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit referrals by unlicensed persons under the Insurance Sales Consumer Protection Act and require persons who may make referrals to establish safeguard procedures to protect unethical telemarketing practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB808 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Justice Reinvestment Task Force to undertake a comprehensive analysis of West Virginia's adult justice system and develop recommendations that may include, but not be limited to, bail and pretri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB812 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify definitions of terroristic acts and groups, establishes specific acts that are felony criminal acts of terrorism and establishes punishment therefor; creates mandatory sentencing; and requires restitution to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB806 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to reorganize several key provisions of the bail statutes with an emphasis on application of factors for certain bail determinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3135 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the criminal offense of obstructing a highway or other passageway; defining "obstruct"; and establishing penalties for violation of section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3495 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit civil rights violations based on disability gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill provides that evidence of constitutionally protected speech or associations is not admissible in criminal prosecution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3494 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require any persons convicted in this state of any of the crimes referenced in subsections (a)(1) or (8) of §61-7-7 of this code to, sign a form at the time of conviction acknowledging they are now prohibited from po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3483 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to aligning mental health examination requirements with those required for involuntary hospitalizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2020 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase penalties for the sale of e-cigarettes, vapes, or cartridges to anyone under 18 years of age, making it a misdemeanor and increasing the fines and penalties for the employee and business that sells these items ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention program and in-service training in child sexual abuse prevention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | HB3442 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a complete defense from civil and/or criminal prosecution against persons lawfully using force in defensive actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3397 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for persons convicted of assault or battery upon athletic officials: the Safe Play Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3476 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand the offense of violating an individual's civil rights to include gender or sexual orientation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB3460 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation to pay jail bills for the incarceration of inmates incarcerated for a misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3455 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to revise and/or establish requirements, prohibitions and regulation of foreign principals or agents of foreign principals, lobbying by or on behalf of such foreign principals or their agents, and to establish criminal lia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB2781 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that judicial officers consider the residency status of a person charged with a criminal violation in determining bail and conditions of pretrial release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3329 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to enforce stricter criminal penalties associated with dangerous felony crimes against children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB3324 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require a board of probation and parole to consider the sentencing judge's recommendation for certain qualifying offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
