Crime
West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Allowing Attorney General to have prosecution power in limited circumstances [SB-182]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to permit the Office of the Attorney General to hold limited prosecution power.
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Relating to revising the criminal code generally [HB-4273]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Insurance ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Gaming ]
The purpose of this bill is to revise the criminal code. The bill relates to the failure of a sex offender to register or provide notice of registration changes and the penalty for the same. The bill relates to timber theft, investigations thereof, and the criminal and civil penalties for the same. The bill provides for crimes against the worker's compensation system. The bill provides for the crime of omission to subscribe for workers' compensation insurance. The bill provides for the crime of failure to file a premium tax report or pay premium
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Creating the Fair Chance Act [HB-4235]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide services to eligible persons to assist in transition following a felony drug conviction involving crack cocaine.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Make it a felony to kill a canine officer [HB-4437]
[Animals ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to include canines in definitions of "law enforcement officers" in relation to crimes against law enforcement officers and the level of force allowable to protect said canines as law enforcement officers.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Grant automatic expungement of criminal records in certain instances [HB-4344]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for the automatic expungement of certain criminal convictions and records that are eligible for expungement.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling [SB-151]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Immigration ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Protecting minors from exposure to indecent displays of sexually explicit nature [SB-195]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to protect minors from indecent displays of a sexually explicit nature, including but not limited to, transvestite and/or transgender performances or displays to minors.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to the criminal forfeiture process act [HB-4584]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to establish uniform procedures for criminal asset forfeiture.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Updating offenses of extortion and attempted extortion [SB-175]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to modify the offenses of extortion and attempted extortion, including threats to publish images of a person's intimate body parts as a means of committing extortion or attempted extortion. The bill defines the phrase "anything of value, or other consideration" to include certain defined sexual acts and defining images of intimate body parts. Finally, the bill sets forth criminal penalties.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms [HB-4577]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
The purpose of this bill is to define acts which constitute infringements of the right to keep and bear arms, to articulate the constitutional limits on such infringements, to declare all such infringements to be against the rights of the people and to be legally void, and to provide remedies for acts taken under the color of federal law.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to felony trespassing [HB-4460]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalty of unlawful trespass into the home of another from a misdemeanor offense to a felony offense.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Requiring sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions [SB-179]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to require the sheriff to serve child abuse and neglect petitions.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Increasing the penalties for exposure of governmental representatives to fentanyl or any other harmful drug [HB-4173]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Public Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to increase the criminal penalties for exposure of governmental representatives, including emergency medical service personnel, to fentanyl or any other harmful drug or chemical agent.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Increasing protection for minor victims of human trafficking [SB-199]
[Human Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide additional protection for the minor victims of sex trafficking.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To make an attack on a K-9 officer a felony [HB-4268]
[Crime ]
[Animals ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to define of police service canine and revising definition of law enforcement officer to include police service canine
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Removing certain drugs from schedule one [HB-4473]
[Cannabis ]
[Crime ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to remove certain substances from schedule I of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, including marihuana, Psilocybin, and Tetrahydrocannabinols.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to death penalty for first degree murder [HB-4450]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for a death penalty and procedures and standards applicable thereto, and automatic review of the penalty, for commission of murder in the first degree. Procedures for carrying out the death sentence are established.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Safe Play Act [HB-4236]
[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.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses [SB-154]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
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Relating generally to trespassing [SB-164]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Relating generally trespassing