| WV | HB4734 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a pay increase and a sign-on bonus for corrections employees to retain current workers and to attract new workers to this field.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5358 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create an ombudsman program within the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation to review complaints against a state agency or correctional facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5337 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the legislative oversight committee of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation; clarify that the legislative oversight committee shall be charged with the immediate and ongoing oversight of the Division...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4668 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation employees who work at institutions managed by the Commissioner to the Survivor Benefits Act; define the qualifying acts for eligibility for payment of survivor benefits for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5368 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create Regional Jail Commissions; to set forth the composition of the commissions, the terms of the members, the compensation of the members, the administrative responsibilities, create the powers and duties of the comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5363 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Corrections to continue the GOALS Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB835 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to describe payment for housing and maintenance of inmates, to modify a per day, per inmate base rate, to modify the reduced rate, and to modify the enhanced rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5655 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a mandatory education program for incarcerated individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5628 | Intro
25% | Require Corrections authorities to gather an inmate’s identification documents prior to release
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB581 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that free feminine hygiene products be provided to female prisoners in all jails, regional jails or state correctional facilities and female juveniles in juvenile detention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5531 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of correctional officers by 12 percent, when there is no explicit promotion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5016 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to make all state inmates, regardless of gender, members of the state convict road force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5029 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a tuition reimbursement for corrections workers in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5359 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to recognize the law-enforcement powers of correctional officers employed by the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation; provide that such officers are not subject to certain certification requirements; authorize the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4842 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Basic Affordable Supplies for Incarcerated West Virginians Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4790 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Division of Corrections to prepare a report on the feasibility of splitting the per diem costs for incarcerating inmates among the municipalities, counties, and the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4671 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a Work/Incarceration Prison pilot program; to establish guidelines for eligibility; creates one prison; authorizes the Division of Corrections to propose rules; provides sentence reduction to an offender sentence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | SB388 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish responsibility for reimbursement of training costs of law-enforcement employees who leave original jurisdiction of employment for employment in any other law-enforcement agency in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4649 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove language requiring specific appropriations in order for the State Board of Education, State Department of Education, and the State Superintendent of Schools to provide education to children and adults housed in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB287 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain probationers to participate in work release program and spend six months in work release center
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB202 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain municipalities pay for incarceration of inmates
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | HB4020 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the assessment of co-payments for medical or dental services by correctional facilities in the State of West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Banking & Insurance Committee |
| WV | HB4203 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize use of inmates to perform work in the upkeep of local cemeteries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4261 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to make all state inmates regardless of sex members of the state convict road force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4554 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish quick response teams (QRT) under the Office of Drug Control Policy to act as first responders in narcotic related medical emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4539 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that free feminine hygiene products be provided to female prisoners in all jails, regional jails or state correctional facilities and female juveniles in juvenile detention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4188 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that any inmate found to have exhibited signs of abuse or patterns of addiction of drugs and alcohol to require counseling for the inmate for a minimum of 60 days upon being released on parole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4223 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that the Division of Corrections provide each probationer with physical copies of their birth certificate and Social Security Administration card upon release from a facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4222 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create earned compliance credits for individuals on probation and parole for certain behaviors and actions to incentivize rehabilitation efforts. The bill authorizes supervising officers to recommend rescinding of credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4278 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish private prisons in West Virginia. The bill permits the HOPE scholarship to apply to those inmates in private prison who seek to achieve their high school diploma or GED. The bill sets forth the terms of the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4459 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the criminal penalty for intentionally fleeing or attempting to flee in a vehicle from a law-enforcement officer, probation officer, or parole officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4240 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish and create comprehensive reentry services for offenders reentering communities to reduce recidivism rates by providing standard services; family-based substance abuse services; educational services; drug treat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB4312 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a pay raise to administrative employees, staff, and personnel of the Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services, and the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority in order to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Finance Committee |
