West Virginia House Bill 4258 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)
Status: Introduced on January 25 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-01-25 - To House Select Committee on Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
Pending: House Select Committee on 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;Â 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. Nancy Peoples Guthrie [D]	Del. Larry Rowe [D]	Del. Matthew Rohrbach [R]
Del. Shawn Fluharty [D]	Del. Douglas Reynolds [D]	Del. Justin Marcum [D]	Del. Steven Shaffer [D]
Del. Barbara Fleischauer [D]	Del. Margaret Smith [D]	Del. Christopher Stansbury [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-25	House	To House Select Committee on Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
2016-01-25	House	Introduced in House
2016-01-25	House	To Select Committee on Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then Judiciary
2016-01-25	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=4258&year=2016&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4258%20intr.htm&yr=2016&sesstype=RS&i=4258