COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 284
(By Senators Love, Helmick, Sharpe, Sprouse and McKenzie)
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[Originating in the Committee on Finance;
reported March 27, 1997.]
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A BILL finding and declaring certain claims for compensation of
innocent victims of crimes occurring in West Virginia to be
moral obligations of the state and directing the auditor to
issue warrants for the payment of the claims.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
COMPENSATION AWARDS TO VICTIMS OF CRIMES.
§1. Finding and declaring certain crime victims claims for
compensation to be moral obligations of the state and
directing payment of the claims.
The Legislature has duly considered the findings of fact and
recommendations for awards reported to it by the court of claims
in respect to the following named claimants who were innocent
victims of crime within this state and who are entitled to
compensation; and in respect to each of the named claimants the
Legislature adopts those findings of fact as its own, hereby declares it to be the moral obligation of the state to pay each
claimant in the amount specified below, and directs the auditor
to issue warrants for the payment of the claims out of any fund
appropriated and available for the purpose.
Claims for crime victims compensation awards:
(To be paid from Crime Victims Compensation Fund)
(1) William C. Chapman$1,000.00
(2) Jerry N. Gibson, as guardian of
C. D. G.$5,000.00
(3) Jerry N. Gibson, as guardian of
J. Y. G.$5,000.00
(4) Betty J. Sargent, as the adoptive parent
of R. W. S.$23,500.00
(5) Betty J. Sargent, as the adoptive parent
of D. M. S.$23,500.00
(6) Alan D. Taylor$ 15,000.00
TOTAL$73,000.00
The Legislature finds that the above moral obligations and
the appropriations made in satisfaction of the moral obligations
are the full compensation for all of the named claimants.