WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 4478

By Delegates Butler, Fast, J. Jeffries, Cadle, Sypolt, Bartlett, Porterfield and Hardy

[Introduced January 22, 2020; Referred to the Committee on Technology and Infrastructure then the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17E-1-14b, relating to prohibiting a commercial driver who has used a commercial motor vehicle in a commission of a felony involving “severe forms of trafficking in persons” from holding a commercial driver’s license for life.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 1. COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE.

§17E-1-14b. Lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking.

A person convicted of “severe forms of trafficking in persons” as that term is defined and described in 22 U.S.C. §7102(11) is disqualified for life of holding a Commercial Driver’s License.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a commercial driver who has used a commercial motor vehicle in a commission of a felony involving “severe forms of trafficking in persons” from holding a commercial driver’s license for life.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.