Bill Text: WV HB2527 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-01-28 - To Judiciary [HB2527 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2019-HB2527-Introduced.html
WEST
virginia legislature
2019 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2527
By Delegates Steele, Pack, Harshbarger, Mandt, J. Jeffries, Graves, Howell, Wilson, Foster and Kessinger
[Introduced January 18, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §29-22-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets; requiring any sentencing be by determinate sentence.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 22. STATE LOTTERY ACT.
§29-22-12. Crimes; forgery, counterfeiting, etc. of lottery tickets; penalties.
Any person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes,
alters, forges, utters, passes or counterfeits a lottery ticket is guilty of a
felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or be
imprisoned in the penitentiary a state correctional facility for a
determinate period of not less than one year nor more than five years,
or both fined and imprisoned.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that any sentence for violation of this statute be for a determinate period.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
