Senate Bill No. 729
(By Senators Facemyer, Bowman, Edgell, Love, Guills, Jenkins,
Plymale, Foster, Sharpe, Minear and Chafin)
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[Introduced March 21, 2005; referred to the Committee
the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §62-11B-4 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to authorizing magistrate courts to
order home incarceration.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §62-11B-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 11B. HOME INCARCERATION ACT.
§62-11B-4. Home incarceration; period of home incarceration;
applicability.
(a) As a condition of probation or bail or as an alternative
sentence to another form of incarceration for any criminal
violation of this code over which a circuit court
or magistrate
court has jurisdiction, a circuit court
or magistrate court may
order an offender confined to the offender's home for a period of
home incarceration. As an alternative sentence to incarceration in
jail, a magistrate may order an adult offender convicted of any criminal violation under this code over which a magistrate court
has jurisdiction, be confined to the offender's home for a period
of electronically monitored home incarceration:
Provided, That
electronic monitoring may not be required in a specific case if a
circuit court
or magistrate court upon petition thereto finds by
order that electronic monitoring is not necessary.
(b) The period of home incarceration may be continuous or
intermittent, as the circuit court
or magistrate court orders, or
continuous except as provided by section five of this article if
ordered by a magistrate. However, the aggregate time actually
spent in home incarceration may not exceed the term of imprisonment
or incarceration prescribed by this code for the offense committed
by the offender.
(c) A grant of home incarceration under this article
constitutes a waiver of any entitlement to deduction from a
sentence for good conduct under the provisions of section
twenty-seven, article five, chapter twenty-eight of this code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow magistrate courts
to order home incarceration.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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