| WV | SB147 | Pass | Adding definition of “ammunition” for purposes of obtaining state license to carry concealed deadly weapon
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 267, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB190 | Pass | Modifying definition of sexual contact
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 82, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB164 | Pass | Relating generally trespassing
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 81, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB477 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the public disclosure of personal information on the internet, and to create penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 213, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB578 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the offense of burglary involves a dwelling or outbuilding belonging to another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 84, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB778 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to amend and add certain qualifying offenses for the purpose of enhancing the sentence of a repeat offender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 85, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB155 | Engross
50% | Creating Violent Crime Prevention Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To conference |
| WV | SB740 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create a new criminal offense of manipulating a photograph, image, video clip, movie, or similar recording containing sexually explicit conduct by the insertion thereof of a visual image of an actual minor so as to crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | SB741 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the criminal offenses of creating, producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing with intent to distribute visual depictions artificial intelligence created child pornography when no actual minor is depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB160 | Engross
50% | Updating language and increasing penalties for indecent exposure
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB779 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to impose deadlines for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to perform an autopsy and to provide a copy of the autopsy report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB855 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to amend and clarify the felony of exhibiting "obscene matter" to a minor for the purpose of abuse to be clarified to include any depiction of sexually graphic material to a minor for the purpose of seducing a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB847 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that if a court enters an order of acquittal of all criminal charges against a person in a case, the court shall order the record expunged upon the expiration of 30 days, unless the person objects to the expunge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB823 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create prohibitions on the illegal entry into or illegal presence in this state by a person who is an alien. The bill provides for the enforcement of those prohibitions and certain related orders, including immunity fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB812 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the distribution of pornographic materials to persons under 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB821 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the same criminal elements and criminal penalties for abuse or neglect of incapacitated adults as are applicable to abuse or neglect of children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB794 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the sentence and parole eligibility for murder in the second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB810 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalty for voluntary manslaughter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB777 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create prohibitions on the illegal entry into or illegal presence in this state by a person who is an alien. The bill provides for the enforcement of those prohibitions and certain related orders, including immunity fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB780 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add person in a position of trust in relation to a child for murder of a child; death of a child; child abuse resulting in injury; child abuse creating risk of injury; female genital mutilation; child neglect resulting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB744 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit civil rights violations based on disability gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill provides that evidence of constitutionally protected speech or associations is not admissible in criminal prosecution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB720 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Stop Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Deep Fake Media Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB474 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to codify the Critical Incident Review Team, to set forth its responsibilities, provide access to information and to set forth confidentiality provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB402 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to codify the USCCA to provide concealed carry classes in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB612 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a criminal offense for knowingly, willfully, and forcibly obstructing or hindering home incarceration supervisors and social service workers while they are lawfully acting in their official capacity and the ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB399 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to make it unlawful to harm, attempt to harm, or kill a police dog that is under the control of a law-enforcement or corrections officer who is acting in his or her official capacity. The bill also defines the term "police...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB534 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB506 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the restriction to carry a firearm on the state capitol complex grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB501 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to cruelty to animals. The bill creates and defines the felony offense of cruelty to animals; modifies and clarifies applicability of the section; defines terms; and creates criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB489 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that it is legal to carry a deadly weapon, firearm, or pepper spray specifically on the sidewalks and streets that directly border and surround the State Capitol Complex grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB473 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the death penalty in limited circumstances; the bill provides for procedures and standards applicable thereto, and automatic review of the penalty, for commission of murder in the first degree. Procedures fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB456 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to address define public camping in public spaces, create a penalty, and address existing ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB158 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create second and third offenses for fleeing from an officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB151 | Engross
50% | Clarifying terms and offense of human smuggling
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB175 | Engross
50% | 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 "any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB314 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide added protection for animals exposed to extreme weather.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| WV | SB435 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to collect DNA from those convicted of crimes to assist in solving other open criminal cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB307 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Patrolman Cassie Marie Johnson Memorial Act and to provide for a death penalty; the bill provides for procedures and standards applicable thereto, and automatic review of the penalty, for commission of murder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB392 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the admissibility of a victim's prior sexual history.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB403 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define gift card fraud, with legislative findings; definitions; required notices; employee training; and misdemeanor penalties
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB434 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit aggressive panhandling and create a misdemeanor offense with penalties. The bill authorizes law enforcement officers to individuals who are engaged in street begging or panhandling to ascertain whether these in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB322 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the crime of sexual assault in the fourth degree; to prohibit school personnel from subjecting a minor student to sexually explicit or oriented discussion, gender persuasion, reading or viewing material as a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB389 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require a permit for the transport or sale of nonferrous metals to a secondary recycler and to make it unlawful to intentionally damage property for the purpose of obtaining nonferrous metals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Energy, Industry and Mining Committee |
| WV | SB339 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for operating a house of prostitution from a misdemeanor to a felony in order to provide law enforcement with adequate tools to address human trafficking in the illegal sex trade industries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB359 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to declare the sale, repair, maintenance, and manufacture of firearms, ammunition, and related accessories and components, etc. to be "essential" businesses and services for the purposes of safety and security in times of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB363 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a mobile training team for the purpose of school safety. The bill provides for regional mobile training officers. The bill empowers the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security to create the program. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB224 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain funding and involvement or attendance of minors to drag shows
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB221 | Intro
25% | Creating felony offense of aggravated cruelty to animals
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB237 | Intro
25% | Criminalizing engaging in adult cabaret performance where it may be viewed by minor
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB197 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit obscene materials in West Virginia schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
