Bill Amendment: WV HB5662 | 2024 | Regular Session
Bill Title: Relating to adding “person in a position of trust” to certain crimes
Status: 2024-04-22 - Chapter 91, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 [HB5662 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5662-hb5662_s_jud_amt_1_2-29_adopted.html
HB5662 S JUD AMT #1 2-29
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The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:
Eng. House Bill 5662 - “A BILL to amend and reenact §61-8D-1, §61-8D-2, §61-8D-2a, §61-8D-3, §61-8D-3a, §61-8D-4, and §61-8D-4a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to defining terms; providing that a person in position of trust in relation to a child may be held criminally liable for murder of a child by refusal or failure to supply necessities, or by allowing another person to fail or refuse to supply necessities, or the delivery, administration or ingestion of a controlled substance, death of a child by child abuse, child abuse resulting in injury, child abuse creating risk of injury, female genital mutilation, child neglect resulting in injury, child neglect creating risk of injury, child neglect resulting in death; and limiting application of exceptions to criminal penalties in certain circumstances.
