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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Safe Play Act [HB-3397]
[Sports ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for persons convicted of assault or battery upon athletic officials: the Safe Play Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Hornbuckle
Filed For Introduction on 03/17/2025
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Prohibiting violations of an individual’s civil rights [HB-3476]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to expand the offense of violating an individual's civil rights to include gender or sexual orientation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bryan Smith
Filed For Introduction on 03/17/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
State of WV to pay for misdemeanor conviction from time of arrest [HB-3460]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Green
Filed For Introduction on 03/17/2025
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West Virginia 2025 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-3455]
[Crime ]
[Ethics ]
[International ]
[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.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Ridenour
Filed For Introduction on 03/17/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to deadly force [HB-3442]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Butler
Filed For Introduction on 03/17/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To expand the Law-Enforcement-Assisted Diversion program to include felonies in circuit court [HB-3323]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to expand the Law-Enforcement-Assisted Diversion program to include felonies in circuit courts.
Sponsored by: Rep. Larry Kump
Filed For Introduction on 03/12/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Establishing Stop Squatters Act [SB-740]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Crime ]
[Property Tax ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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 intentional property damage by persons in unlawful possession, or who present a false document purporting to convey real property or attempt to list for sale or rent without title thereto.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Woelfel
Filed For Introduction on 03/12/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to dangerous crimes against children [HB-3329]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to enforce stricter criminal penalties associated with dangerous felony crimes against children.
Sponsored by: Rep. Larry Kump
Filed For Introduction on 03/12/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To require parole boards to take into account the sentencing judge’s recommendation at the time of sentencing [HB-3324]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Street
Filed For Introduction on 03/12/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Expanding powers of bounty hunters in West Virginia [HB-3303]
[Crime ]
[Veterans ]
[Public Safety ]
[Military ]
The purpose of this bill is to expand the authority of bail bond enforcers, bounty hunters, and private investigators; authorize bail bond enforcers, bounty hunters, and private investigators to apprehend and arrest defendants on certain warrants; authorize payment under the Civil Forfeiture Act for defendant apprehension; state a registration preference for retired members of the United States Armed Forces; require the Secretary of State to publish a list of registered bail bond enforcers, bounty hunters, and private investigators; and clarify
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Sponsored by: Rep. Pat McGeehan
Filed For Introduction on 03/11/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to expungement of certain criminal convictions [HB-3289]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jeff Eldridge
Introduced In Senate on 03/27/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to the cultivation of medical cannabis [HB-3230]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
The purpose of this bill is to permit qualifying patients to grow and cultivate up to 10 cannabis plants for their own use with no more than five reaching maturity simultaneously.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Pushkin
Filed For Introduction on 03/07/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating a domestic violence registry [HB-3242]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to create a domestic violence registry. The bill provides a purpose. The bill directs the criminal identification bureau of the West Virginia State Police to establish and maintain the registry. The bill provides for confidential inquiry of persons on the registry. The bill establishes criteria for placement on and releasing information from the registry. The bill requires prosecuting attorneys to provide certain information. The bill defines terms.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Pushkin
Filed For Introduction on 03/07/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Permitting certain nonviolent offenders to be able to carry firearms. [HB-3219]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the right to bear arms is a constitutional right and to provide when persons convicted of non-violent crimes may have their rights to bear arms reinstated. The bill also clarifies what constitutes a crime of violence and provides protection for residents in the exercise of their constitutional rights.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Dean
Filed For Introduction on 03/07/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Removing the one-time limit on the expungement of certain criminal convictions [HB-3244]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to remove the one-time limit on the expungement of certain criminal convictions. The bill also removes burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary from the specific crimes for which eligibility for expungement is limited.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Pushkin
Filed For Introduction on 03/07/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Providing for the reintegration of inmates in correctional facilities [HB-3258]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to require correctional facilities to assist juvenile and adult offenders to obtain a Social Security number and card, a birth certificate, and a driver's license.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Pushkin
Filed For Introduction on 03/07/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating the Police Partnering with Communities Act [HB-3257]
[Crime ]
[Community Development ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to establish the Police Partnering With Communities Act. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill defines "distressed areas." The bill establishes the fund within the West Virginia State Treasurer's Office. Finally, the bill provides for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Pushkin
Filed For Introduction on 03/07/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Controlled Substances and arrestable offenses [HB-3190]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Cannabis ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Public Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to expand the offense of public intoxication to persons intoxicated by controlled substances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Carl Martin
To Judiciary on 03/21/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Authorizing use of unmanned aerial vehicles to track certain mortally wounded wild animals [SB-721]
[Animals ]
[Agriculture ]
[Crime ]
[Drones ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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 unauthorized Unmanned Aerial Vehicle surveillance or attack; and to provide criminal penalties for damage to critical infrastructure or farm lands with fences, livestock, or agriculture land or crops, whether operated as a for-profit business or not for-profit farming.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bill Hamilton
To House Government Organization on 03/26/2025
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Louisiana 2025 Regular Session
Provides for a minimum mandatory sentence for certain hit and run driving offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX) [HB-35]
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[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Provides for a minimum mandatory sentence for certain hit and run driving offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Sponsored by: Rep. Troy Romero
Signed By The President Of The Senate. on 06/02/2025