| WV | HB4252 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create a framework by which Canadian domestic violence orders can be recognized, registered, enforced by law enforcement, and enforced by the courts of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 94, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4399 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for additional reasons for a civil action to be filed to expunge criminal records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 86, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4845 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Anti-Swatting Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 87, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4999 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to expand the exception to spousal testimonial privilege to include cases of offenses committed against the grandchildren of either spouse
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 95, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4998 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify the penalty for third offense conviction of shoplifting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 88, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5091 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to add the criminal offense of damaging, destroying, or stealing any amount of copper, with felony penalties, providing for forfeiture of items of personal property which are used, have been used, or are intended for use, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 89, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5510 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide penalties for crimes against public justice, criminal offenses and penalties for intimidation, retaliation against public officers and employees, jurors, and witnesses; fraudulent official proceedings and legal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 90, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5662 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to add person in a position of trust in relation to a child for murder, death of a child, child abuse resulting in injury, child abuse creating risk of injury, female genital mutilation, child neglect resulting in injury, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 91, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4885 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit persons from sitting, standing, kneeling, or laying down in the roadway for the purpose of blocking traffic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Judiciary |
| WV | HB5305 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify existing law that §17C-5-2b is the operative statute for deferred adjudication for all eligible driving under the influence cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Judiciary |
| WV | HB5043 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | HB5344 | Engross
50% | clarifying when a mentally incapacitated victim may not be required to testify in open court; and providing judicial discretion to determine the appropriateness of a mentally capacitated victim to testify.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5031 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to add a definition for "illegal alien" under human trafficking and provide that illegal aliens are not eligible for restitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5130 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for increased fines for criminal trespass.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5345 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify how those required to register sex offenders, who have no permanent residence, can satisfy their legal obligation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5516 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of deep fake images for the criminal invasion of privacy or the unlawful depiction of nude or partially nude minors or minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct; establishing such conduct as criminal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5235 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4299 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize teachers in elementary or secondary schools to carry concealed firearms and be designated as a school protection officer (SPO).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5606 | Intro
25% | Relating generally to money laundering
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB4654 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to remove schools, museums, and public libraries from the exemption which protects these types of entities from prosecution for distribution and display to minor of an obscene matter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5319 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the offense of exposing a law-enforcement officer, probation officer, parole officer, courthouse security officer, correctional officer, the State Fire Marshal, a deputy or assistant fire marshal, firefighter, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5597 | Intro
25% | Relating to school bus driver charged with DUI
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5067 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify when a minor may bring a medical malpractice cause of action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5659 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the conditions for pretrial release and the maximum bail amount that may be set for individuals charged with multiple misdemeanor offenses. The bill revises the definition of "bail" and establishes that a defend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5645 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to grant additional local and state law enforcement privileges to commissioned law enforcement officers of the National Park Service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5663 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the sentence and parole eligibility for murder in the second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5654 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that GED training is offered to inmates on a timely basis and to ensure that it is meaningfully available at the time of parole or release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5614 | Intro
25% | Relating to postmortem examinations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5634 | Intro
25% | Empowering the Homeland Security Inspector General to oversee/investigate all County Metro 911 Agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB5578 | Intro
25% | Modifying definition of sexual contact
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5567 | Intro
25% | Relating to allowing medical or geriatric parole for certain inmates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5538 | Intro
25% | The purpose of bill is to modify parole eligibility for inmates serving life sentences and those who have been convicted of first degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5502 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to bring state law in compliance with the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act by expanding the applicability of the Act to reflect federal law by modifying the reporting requirements and modifying penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5488 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to codify that The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits unlawful users of drugs and those addicted to controlled substances, specifically marijuana, may not ship, receive, or possess a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4965 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to mandate restitution to children of victims of negligent homicide or driving under the influence causing death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5446 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-05
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB5439 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that using deadly force against an intruder or attacker in a workplace by person not engaged in unlawful activity if the person reasonably believes that he or she or another is in imminent danger of death or ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5402 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a felony offense for persons who pay or receive money to influence members of the Legislature. It repeals the article that created the lobbyist law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5404 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define "burglar's tool," add the crime of "Possession of Burglarious Tools" to the West Virginia Code, and provide for penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5415 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish certain crimes, processes, and procedures regarding individuals who have illegally entered or reentered the state in violation of state and federal laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security Committee |
| WV | HB5394 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-31
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5400 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program within the Department of Homeland Security's Division of Administrative Services to facilitate the transport of inspected unauthorized aliens within the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5390 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to proscribe a new penalty that is subject to the value limitations of W. Va. Code §61-3-13, that the sentence provided for in subsection (c) be amended to become the exact same sentence for a violation of W. Va. Code Ã...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5398 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to establishing a drug testing program for adults who apply to serve as foster parents, kinship parents, or caregivers to displaced children in the legal custody of the Department of Human Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5364 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5360 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the provisions of the section shall not apply to certain official law-enforcement acts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5342 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that civil remedies are not available for those aggrieved by the disclosure of illegally intercepted materials if the materials were on a matter of public concern, and were published by those who did not engage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5307 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to reform the monetary amounts constituting petit larceny and grand larceny; increases the criminal penalties upon conviction of the offense of grand larceny, creates a new criminal offense of aggravated grand larceny and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5308 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section of the Code creating the offense of anchoring or beaching of shanty boats on lands of another without permission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5315 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the prohibition of the possession and the criminal penalties for that offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
