West Virginia House Bill 2680

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on February 20 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-20 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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 sentenced to the work/incarceration prison; provides that an offender who commits a violation of the rules be sent to a correctional facility and have an additional year added on to their original sentence; provides guideline for appropriation; allows offenders from other counties be accepted to the work/incarceration prison; and provides for an annual evaluation of the work/incarceration prison to be submitted to the Legislature.

Create a prison work pilot program

Del. Marty Gearheart [R]

Del. Joe Funkhouser [R]

Del. Jim Butler [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-20	House	To House Judiciary
2025-02-20	House	Introduced in House
2025-02-20	House	To Judiciary then Finance
2025-02-20	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
62	11G	1	New Code	See Bill Text
62	11G	2	New Code	See Bill Text
62	11G	3	New Code	See Bill Text
62	11G	4	New Code	See Bill Text
62	11G	5	New Code	See Bill Text
62	11G	6	New Code	See Bill Text
62	11G	7	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2680&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2680%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2680
Supplement	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=904226568