Crime
West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to revising the criminal code generally [HB-2401]
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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Relating to illegal immigrants [HB-2426]
The purpose of this bill relates to the punishment of persons with illegal immigration status and determining punishment for first and second offenses.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Fourth Amendment Restoration Act [HB-2431]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit law-enforcement officers and political subdivision officials from utilizing, implementing, adopting, or continuing the use of certain specified surveillance and artificial intelligence technologies.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to Capitol Carry [HB-2427]
The purpose of this bill is to change the West Virginia Code to allow concealed carry on and in Capitol grounds.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Preserving and protecting the right to keep and bear arms [HB-2446]
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 2025 Regular Session
Prohibiting camping in public places [SB-504]
The purpose of this bill is to address define public camping in public spaces, create a penalty, and address existing ordinances.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to the creation of the Criminal Forfeiture Process Act replacing the West Virginia Contraband Forfeiture Act [HB-2383]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Criminal Process Forfeiture Act.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to minor of obscene matter [HB-2396]
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.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To impose a life sentence on fentanyl dealers [HB-2380]
The purpose of this bill is to impose a life sentence on fentanyl dealers.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating WV Constitutional Carry Act of 2025 [SB-469]
The purpose of this bill is to allow 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 2025 Regular Session
Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act [SB-475]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Violent Crime Prevention Act; require ballistic data be submitted to the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network for alleged use of a firearm in connection with charges for certain crimes; and provide a timeframe for law enforcement to submit the data.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To allow those who are 18-20 years old to carry a deadly weapon concealed without a permit, as is allowed for those who are 21 or older [HB-2384]
The purpose of this bill is to allow 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 2025 Regular Session
Relating to the prohibition of warrantless searches and seizures. [HB-2386]
The purpose of this bill is to warrantless entry of private lands; limitations of entry onto private lands; clarifying the process for law enforcement entry onto posted private lands; use of surveillance cameras on or near posted private lands; searches and seizures on private lands; requiring a search warrant or other recognized exception for searches and seizures in open fields; providing a definition; providing for abolishing the common law open fields doctrine; prohibiting surveillance cameras on private property; and providing exceptions.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Requiring transparency from Department of Human Services [SB-472]
The purpose of this bill is to require transparency from the Department of Human Services.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating the crime of pattern of harrassment [HB-2391]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the offense of harassment to include intimidation; define intimidation; and create criminal penalties.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Clarifying the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers. [HB-2360]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the victims of crimes against law-enforcement officers.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To modify the parole eligibility for a person serving a sentence for first degree murder [HB-2359]
The purpose of bill is to modify parole eligibility for inmates serving life sentences and those who have been convicted of first degree murder.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Establishing 3-year mandatory prison sentence for person convicted of illegal possession of Schedule I and Schedule II drugs [SB-444]
The purpose of this bill is to create a mandatory three-year sentence for possession of Schedule I or II substances, except cannabis. The bill provides exceptions from prosecution for persons incidentally exposed to the substances or who are forced to possess the substances. And, the bill provides a conditional discharge for first offenders and release with non-extraditable warrant, with a bus ticket to any state West of the Mississippi River.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To create a domestic violence registry [HB-2366]
The purpose of this bill is to create a Domestic Violence Registry.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating new penalty and procedure for simple possession of certain Schedule I or II substances [SB-463]
The purpose of this bill is to create a new penalty and procedure for simple possession of a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II which is a narcotic drug or which is methamphetamine.