| WV | SB797 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow testimony by one spouse regarding an offense of the other spouse against a child or grandchild.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5581 | Intro
25% | Regarding continuing education requirements and compensation of Guardians Ad Litem
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5526 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a pilot program to provide legal services, advice, and representation to parents who are facing legal issues that may otherwise result in the removal of their child or children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB721 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that final orders upon a disposition hearing in child abuse and neglect proceedings be prepared and signed within 10 (ten) days of the disposition hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5515 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a three-year pilot program relating to West Virginia Public Guardian ad Litem Services, established initially in three circuits, and providing services initially in three circuits. Circuit based West Virginia Pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5423 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a cognitively impaired or mentally defective person from being forced to testify in open court, and to increase the penalty for sexual assault of a mentally defective or mentally incapacitated person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB621 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the procedure for the court to conduct written investigations into proceedings under Article 9, to ensure that the West Virginia judiciary remains neutral and detached in all matters pending before any court of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5412 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the hourly rate for private investigators working for Public Defender Services from $30 to $65.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5384 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the date for election of judges of the Intermediate Court of Appeals to the same date as the general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5383 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to move the election of Supreme Court justices to the general election rather than the primary election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5114 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the time period of a protective order extension to one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB267 | Intro
25% | Adding grievance and appellate procedures for individuals participating in DMV safety and treatment program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4870 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow for a one-time allocation of money into the West Virginia courthouse facilities improvement fund for the purpose of allowing counties to apply for a state match for the construction, reconstruction, repair, mainte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4858 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a report, of the statements of charges against a judge in this state, made by Judicial Investigation Commission and the Office of Disciplinary Counsel to be sent, annually, to the Legislature's Joint Committee o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB307 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Patrolman Cassie Marie Johnson Memorial Act and to provide for a death penalty; the bill provides for procedures and standards applicable thereto, and automatic review of the penalty, for commission of murder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB392 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the admissibility of a victim's prior sexual history.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB360 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Substance Abuse Intervention Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for involuntary treatment for a substance use disorder and sets forth the rights of a patient. The bill establishes cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB263 | Intro
25% | Expanding candidates eligibility for judicial retirement
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | HB4609 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the procedure for the court to conduct written investigations into proceedings under Article 9, to ensure that the West Virginia judiciary remains neutral and detached in all matters pending before any court of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4177 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to direct the Supreme Court of Appeals to assign appropriate judicial officers for a pilot domestic violence court in Kanawha County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4360 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the location of a court with guardianship jurisdiction of a minor child has venue for an adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4581 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the ability of family courts to order services provided by the Department of Health and Human Resources; and establish that the costs for those services remain expenses of the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4533 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a simple proceeding in family court to name a kinship legal guardianship where a person is unmarried and at least 16 years of age or older, and receives effectively no substantial care and support from his or he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4356 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit business owners to have the ability to be excused from jury duty service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4021 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a procedure for modification of a prison sentence when a person has served at least 10 years of a sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4566 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section of code limiting the jurisdiction of circuit courts to consider divorce cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4558 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the daily rate of compensation for people serving on petit juries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB182 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit the Office of the Attorney General to hold limited prosecution power.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4384 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the practice of charging the full filing fee for every plaintiff listed in a civil action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4386 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow for Child Protective Services expungement in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues Committee |
| WV | HB4589 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow magistrate assistants to assess fines on basic charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4311 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow a party to a civil action to seek an expeditious answer to a certified question on the constitutionality of any statute, rule, or executive order from the Intermediate Court of Appeals while pending in circuit cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4336 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a person who is proven by a preponderance in a civil action to have committed elder abuse from inheriting from the abused person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
