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Senate Bill No. 238
(By Senators Wooton, Dittmar, Buckalew, Yoder,
Ross, Oliverio, White and Wagner )
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[Originating in the Committee on Judiciary;

reported February 1, 1995.]
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A BILL to amend article five, chapter four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section six, relating to creating the misdemeanor offense of knowingly and willfully providing materially false information to the commission on special investigations or its personnel authorized to conduct investigations.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article five, chapter four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section six, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. COMMISSION ON SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS.
§4-5-6. False statements to commission.
Any person who knowingly and willfully makes any material false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation to the commission on special investigations or an investigator of the commission acting in his or her official capacity in an investigation authorized by the commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be incarcerated in the county or regional jail for not more than one year or be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both.