West Virginia House Bill 2516 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: Introduced on February 16 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-16 - To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
Pending: House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to address substance abuse and facilitate the reduction thereof; mandating the Governor’s committee on crime, delinquency and correction on reforms to conduct a study of state drug sentencing laws; requiring the committee to coordinate school education program with law-enforcement officers; authorizing the Department of Health to promulgate rules regulating the exchange of syringes, and providing immunity for certain actions relating thereto; directing the State Board of Education to requiring each county board to provide substance abuse training education; directing State Board of Education to coordinate its activities with law enforcement and drug rehabilitation agencies; providing a penalty enhancement for us of a firearm during manufacture or distribution of controlled or imitation controlled substance; providing that an attempt or conspiracy to attempt to distribute controlled substances is the same as the actual act; and establishing new criminal penalty for causing death by distributing a controlled substance to that person.

Relating to substance abuse

Del. Andrew Byrd [D]	Del. Matthew Rohrbach [R]	Del. Shawn Fluharty [D]	Del. Barbara Fleischauer [D]
Sen. Stephen Baldwin [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-16	House	To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
2017-02-16	House	Introduced in House
2017-02-16	House	To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then Judiciary
2017-02-16	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	9	4a	New Code	See Bill Text
16	1	4	Amended Code	Citation Text
18	2	7b	Amended Code	Citation Text
60A	4	401	Amended Code	Citation Text
60A	4	414	New Code	See Bill Text
61	2	4a	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2516&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2516%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=2516