COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 256
(By Senators Beach, Jenkins, Miller, Nohe, Klempa and Barnes)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported February 1, 2011.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §15-12-10 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to requiring sex offenders to
verify their e-mail and other online identities in the same
way as they register their physical addresses.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §15-12-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 12. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT.
§15-12-10. Address and online information verification.
All registrants, including those for whom there has been no
change in registration information since their initial registration
or previous address verification, must report, in the month of
their birth, or in the case of a sexually violent predator in the
months of January, April, July and October, to the State Police
detachment in their county or counties of registration and must respond to all verification inquiries or and informational
requests, including but not limited to requests for online
information made by the State Police pursuant to this section. The
State Police shall verify addresses of those persons registered as
sexually violent predators every ninety days and all other
registered persons once a year. As used in this section, the term
"online information" shall mean all information required by
subdivision (8), subsection (d), section one-a, article twelve,
chapter fifteen of this code. The State Police may require
registrants to periodically submit to new fingerprints and
photographs as part of the verification process. The method of
verification shall be in accordance with internal management rules
pertaining thereto promulgated by the superintendent under
authority of section twenty-five, article two, chapter fifteen of
this code.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require sex offenders
to verify their e-mail and other online identities in the same way
as they register their physical address.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.)