Crime
West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Increase penalties for abuse of or cruelty to animals [HB-5146]
[Animals ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide increased protections for the welfare of domestic animals in the care of animal shelters, breeders, and private individuals.
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Relating to Vehicular Homicide [HB-5119]
[Crime ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to create the felony offense of reckless and wanton vehicular homicide.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Regarding Vehicular Homicide [HB-5174]
[Crime ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill generally relates to amending the definition of negligent homicide. The bill defines vehicular homicide. The bill imposes a penalty. Finally, the bill increases the penalty for reckless driving.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prohibiting public disclosure of personal information on the internet [HB-5156]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Cybersecurity ]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the public disclosure of personal information on the internet, and to create penalties.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to criminal trespass [HB-5130]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for increased fines for criminal trespass.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To remove the 2 year timeframe for medical malpractice suits to be filed ONLY for individuals who were minors when they had their procedures performed [HB-5067]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify when a minor may bring a medical malpractice cause of action.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Inmates in WV jails must be housed based on biological sex [HB-5184]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to require inmates to be housed based on their biological sex.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Providing authority for West Virginia law enforcement agencies to fine individual vehicle owners who fail to register their vehicle that have have been parked at their residence for more than sixty days [HB-5108]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide authority for West Virginia law enforcement agencies to fine individual vehicle owners who fail to register their vehicle that have been parked at their residence for more than sixty days.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Permitting civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate images [HB-5116]
[Data Privacy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to permit a civil action for the unauthorized disclosure of an intimate image. The bill permits civil remedies for the unauthorized disclosure of intimate images. The bill provides for a short title. The bill creates definitions. The bill provides for a civil action. The bill provides exceptions to liability. The bill provides for plaintiff's privacy. The bill provides for remedies. The bill creates a statute of limitations. The bill provides for construction. The bill provides for uniformity of application and construction.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Increasing criminal penalties for repeat offenders for certain crimes [HB-5132]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to increase criminal penalties for repeat offenders for certain crimes.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To require all state employees, county employees, and employees of county school boards to be subject to random drug testing [HB-5088]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to require mandatory drug testing for all classes of employees of county commissions, the state of West Virginia, State Board of Education, and in K through 12 schools.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to access of records in controlled substance monitoring [HB-5167]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Data Privacy ]
The purpose of this bill is to add qualified examiners with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to the persons who have access to the Controlled Substances Monitoring Database maintained by the Board of Pharmacy.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Make speeds that exceed 25MPH over the speed limit reckless driving. [HB-5068]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide that operating any vehicle at speeds in excess of 25 miles per hour over the posted speed limit is reckless driving.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Change the maximum time period of a protective order to one year [HB-5114]
[Crime ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to change the time period of a protective order extension to one year.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
West Virginia Critical Infrastructure Protection Act [HB-5091]
[Infrastructure ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
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, used in perpetration of theft or damage to infrastructure; and providing that the forfeiture provisions of this bill be governed by the applicable provisions of the West Virginia Contraband Forfeiture Act.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To allow those who are 18-20 years old to carry a deadly weapon concealed without a permit and to add a definition of the term “ammunition” relating to the requirements for obtaining a state permit to carry a concealed deadly weapon. [HB-5135]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to add a definition of the term "ammunition" relating to the requirements for obtaining a state permit to carry a concealed deadly weapon pursuant to the provisions of §61-7-4 of this code. The bill allows those persons 18-20 years of age to be permitted to carry a deadly weapon, as those persons 21 and over are currently permitted to do.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Permitting State Tax Division investigators carry concealed weapons [SB-549]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Taxes ]
The purpose of this bill is to permit investigators in the State Tax Division to carry concealed weapons.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prohibiting false abuse or neglect referrals in child abuse cases [SB-534]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit evidence of accusations of committing false allegations of child abuse in Family Court proceedings unless an individual has been convicted of that crime.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prohibiting police officers with less than academy training from writing citations for traffic offenses on interstates [SB-536]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit law enforcement officers with less than academy training from writing citations for traffic offenses on the interstate.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to requirements, prohibitions and regulation of foreign principals or agents of foreign principals, lobbying by or on behalf of such foreign principals or their agents [HB-5043]
[Crime ]
[Ethics ]
[National Security ]
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 liabilities and fines for violations of the requirements applicable to such foreign principals or their agents.