HB2806 S JUD AMT

Caplan 7908

    The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

    Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill No. 2806--A Bill to amend and reenact §25-1A-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §25-1A-2a, all relating to requiring that a prisoner first exhaust administrative remedies prior to resorting to litigation; defining ordinary administrative remedies; authorizing the Commissioner of Corrections and the Executive Director of the Regional Jail Authority to each establish procedures for ordinary administrative remedies; setting forth when a remedy is considered exhausted; setting and computing time periods for issuance of final decision; providing exceptions for when an agency may not obtain an extension of time to issue a final decision; defining sexual assault and sexual abuse; providing that no staff member who is the subject of the complaint may be involved in reviewing or hearing the grievance; permitting certain third parties to assist inmates in filing requests for administrative remedies; providing time for an initial response and final decision; directing proposal of rules for legislative approval by the commissioner and director relating to an allegation of imminent violence; permitting discipline of inmate if grievance filed in bad faith; permitting inmate to file certain court actions; and providing that inmate pay filing costs if civil or criminal action is dismissed as frivolous.

Adopted

Rejected