Legislative Browser - Subject Crimes (And Related Subheadings)
| State | Bill Number | Summary/Title | Action | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WV | HB4604 | Legislative status for West Virginia WV House of Delegates Bill HB4604 | Effective Date | 2010-06-18 |
| WV | SB457 | The purpose of this bill is to repeal outmoded sections of the code that make adultery, fornication and persons who lewdly and lasciviously cohabit together misdemeanors. | Effective Date | 2010-06-11 |
| WV | SB627 | The purpose of this bill is to increase civil and criminal penalties for the crime of littering and to direct the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to coordinate a state-wide litter reporting program. | Effective Date | 2010-06-11 |
| WV | SB498 | The purpose of this bill is to amend the civil definition of neglect by making it congruent with the definition of criminal neglect as defined in W. Va. Code §61-2-29. | Effective Date | 2010-06-11 |
| WV | HB4534 | The purpose of this bill is to increase the criminal penalty for failing to stop and render aid after a motor vehicle accident. The bill also names the code section "Erin's Law." | Effective Date | 2010-06-09 |
| WV | SB215 | The purpose of this bill is to establish crimes of malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery and assault on volunteer firefighters, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical service employees. | Effective Date | 2010-06-07 |
| WV | HB4207 | The purpose of this bill is to make it unlawful to send obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer, mobile phone, personal digital assistant or other mobile device. The bill makes it a misdemeanor for first and second of... Read more | House Message received | 2010-03-13 |
| WV | HB4382 | The purpose of this bill is to provide for forfeiture of property used in various crimes and the disposition of such property. | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-03-04 |
| WV | SB535 | The purpose of this bill is to make a conviction for fleeing a vehicle after a law-enforcement officer has directed the vehicle to stop and whose fleeing occupant is under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs at the time as an und... Read more | Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading | 2010-03-03 |
| WV | SB646 | The purpose of this bill is to provide that criminal sentences of imprisonment may run concurrently or consecutively. The bill also provides that sentences are to run concurrently unless a court orders or a statute requires otherwise. | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4627 | The purpose of this bill is to require an automatic home incarceration sentence for nonviolent misdemeanor crimes. It also provides that moneys from the special fund may be used for community corrections programs. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4489 | The purpose of this bill is to enact "Haven's Law" by increasing the criminal penalties for overtaking or passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging children. The bill authorizes an educational campaign on scho... Read more | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-15 |
| WV | SB558 | The purpose of this bill is to create neighborhood crime watch programs, develop penalties for harassing officials of this programs and creating a policy that will maintain informants anonymity. This article is new; therefore strike-throughs and unde... Read more | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-12 |
| WV | SB541 | The purpose of this bill is to increase the fine for overtaking and passing a school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging children. | To Senate Education Committee | 2010-02-11 |
| WV | HB4422 | The purpose of this bill is to resolve a conflict in criminal statutes. Last year, the Legislature passed House Bill No. 2739 which authorized law-enforcement officers to seize any weapons in the respondent's possession at the time the officer serves... Read more | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-10 |
| WV | HB4412 | The purpose of this bill is to reduce from six months to three months the period of delinquency for failure to meet an obligation to pay support to a minor before failure to pay is a misdemeanor penalty. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-09 |
| WV | HB4372 | The purpose of this bill is to correct an erroneous cross-reference contained in subsection (d) of §61-11-22. The current cross-reference references an emergency hearing, rather than the definition of a family or household member, as originally ... Read more | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-05 |
| WV | HB4367 | The purpose of this section is to create the offense of obtaining copper or other nonferrous metals unlawfully. Criminal penalties are provided, including enhanced penalties where the theft interrupts vital communications to police, fire, 911 emergen... Read more | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-05 |
| WV | SB456 | The purpose of this bill is to making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace, and provides for criminal penalties for said offense. §61-6-26 and §61-6-27 are new; therefore underscoring and strike-throughs have been omitted | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-03 |
| WV | HB4287 | The purpose of this bill is to provide that persons convicted of a crime, under the provisions of the West Virginia Computer Crime and Abuse Act, against minors are denied Internet access as part of punishment and penalty for that crime. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-02-02 |
| WV | SB367 | The purpose of this bill is to make it unlawful to use additional technology associated with a mobile phone while operating a vehicle on a public street, highway or public vehicular area. This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscori... Read more | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-27 |
| WV | HB4170 | This bill was recommended for introduction and passage by the Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary. The bill is modeled on the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act approved July 15, 2009, by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC). The p... Read more | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-25 |
| WV | HB4029 | The purpose of this bill is to establish crimes of malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery and assault on volunteer firefighters, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical service employees. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-14 |
| WV | HB2393 | The purpose of this bill is to provide a mandatory sentence of fifteen years for any person who maliciously shoots a police officer on duty, while providing a mandatory sentence of ten years for any person who unlawfully, but not maliciously, shoots ... Read more | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2270 | The purpose of this bill is to increase certain penalties for persons convicted of domestic battery and domestic assault including the requirement that they complete an approved batterers' course. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | SB13 | The purpose of this bill is to increase penalties for certain criminal trespassing offenses. | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | SB77 | The purpose of this bill is to allow the temporary detention of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officers to inquire on commission of a crime where probable cause appears to exist. | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | SB83 | The purpose of this bill is to require certain governmental entities and circuit courts to retain and preserve biological material for possible DNA testing that is gathered in the investigation or prosecution of a criminal case for the period of time... Read more | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | SB173 | The purpose of this bill is to make it unlawful to send obscene, anonymous, harassing and threatening communications by computer. The bill also provides that a third or subsequent offense is a felony and, establishes penalties of imprisonment for no... Read more | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2881 | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a bank or financial institution or the prosecuting attorney may not charge a fee larger than five percent of the face amount of the check, draft or order under the worthless check restitution program. | To House Banking & Insurance Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2348 | The purpose of this bill is to require mandatory community service upon conviction of a misdemeanor offense of driving under the influence and creation of a central registry of persons convicted of driving under the influence. | To House Roads & Transportation Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB3087 | The purpose of this bill is to making it a criminal offense to disturb the peace, and provides for criminal penalties for said offense. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | SB209 | The purpose of this bill is to make it a criminal act to assault emergency medical service personnel, including paid and volunteer firefighters, when acting in an official capacity. The bill also establishes criminal penalties. | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | SB90 | The purpose of this bill is to make the manufacture or possession of burglary tools a criminal act. | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB3019 | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a third or subsequent offense under this section is a felony and, provide penalties of imprisonment for not more than two years, a fine of not more than $5,000, or both. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | SB139 | The purpose of this bill is to create criminal penalties for a railroad company or employee who denies, delays or interferes with medical treatment or first-aid to a railroad employee injured on the job, or who threatens discipline to an injured empl... Read more | To Senate Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2607 | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for the financial exploitation of elderly persons and incapacitated adults. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2754 | The purpose of this bill is to require witnesses of violet acts against persons and emergency situations to report the incidents to the appropriate law-enforcement authorities. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2944 | This bill provides for the criminal offenses of home invasion in the first, second, third and fourth degrees, with prescribed penalties, and otherwise modify the present law of burglary. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB3141 | The purpose of this bill is to include the larceny of copper ground wires or cables from communications towers sites under crimes against property. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB3263 | The purpose of this bill is to provide that all persons have the right to be free from violence without regard to the motivation behind the violence. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2130 | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit law-enforcement officers from asking crime victims if they have insurance coverage to cover losses occasioned by criminal activity. The rationale for the proposal is that law enforcement have less incentive to... Read more | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2716 | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the penalty for battery on a police officer. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2609 | The purpose of this bill is to create criminal penalties for a railroad company or employee who denies, delays or interferes with medical treatment or first aid to a railroad employee injured on the job, or who threatens discipline to an injured empl... Read more | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2015 | The purpose of this bill is to create a new criminal offense based on acts of violence against a pregnant woman that result in a miscarriage or stillbirth of her fetus. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB3059 | This bill shall exempt federal, state, county or private investigators from prosecution for stalking due to performing lawful investigations involving surveillance activities. | To House Judiciary Committee | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2018 | The purpose of this bill is to make it a criminal offense for the destruction of a landlord's property which has been rented for residential purposes. The bill provides that damage greater than $300.00 but less than $1,000.00 may constitute a misdem... Read more | To House Political Subdivisions Committee | 2010-01-13 |