HB4618 S JUD AMT

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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 4618--A Bill to amend and reenact §61-6-1, §61-6-1a, §61-6-3, §61-6-4, and §61-6-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the authority of the Division of Protective Services to compel dispersal of a riot or unlawful assemblage; to the authority of the Division of Protective Services to control riots and unlawful assemblages; to include officers of the Division of Protective Services among those officers on whom the penalty for failure to exercise power at riots and unlawful assemblages may be imposed; allowing Division of Protective Services officers to summon persons to suppress unlawful assemblages; to hold harmless Division of Protective Services officers from liability for the death of persons in riots and unlawful assemblages; correcting references to the State Police; removing language making all persons unlawfully assembled criminally liable for deaths of persons quelling unlawful assembly or riot; and to make technical corrections.

Adopted

Rejected