WEST virginia legislature
2020 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2527
By Delegates Steele, Pack, Mandt, J. Jeffries and Kessinger
[Introduced January 08, 2020;
Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §29-22-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets; requiring any sentencing be by determinate sentence.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 22. STATE LOTTERY ACT.
§29-22-12. Crimes; forgery, counterfeiting, etc. of lottery tickets; penalties.
Any person who, with intent
to defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes or counterfeits a
lottery ticket is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined not more than $1,000, or be imprisoned in the penitentiary a
state correctional facility for a determinate period of not less
than one year, nor more than five years, or both fined and imprisoned.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that any sentence for violation of this statute be for a determinate period.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.