WEST virginia legislature
2018 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 535
By Senators Trump, Unger, Stollings, Woelfel, Plymale, and Cline
[Introduced February 14,
2018; Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §30-29-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to increasing a fee, included in court costs of criminal cases, dedicated to funding training, professional development, and certification programs for law-enforcement officers.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 29. LAW-ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.
§30-29-4. Special revenue account -- Collections; disbursements; administrative expenses.
(a) A $2 $10
fee shall be added to the usual court costs of all criminal court proceedings
involving violation of any criminal law of the state or any county or
municipality thereof, excluding violations of municipal parking ordinances,
unless such fee is later modified pursuant to legislative rule.
(b) A $2 $10
fee shall be added to the amount of any cash or property bond posted for
violation of any criminal law of the state or any county or municipality
thereof, excluding bonds posted solely for violation of municipal parking
ordinances, unless such fee is later modified pursuant to legislative rule.
Upon forfeiture of such bond, the $2 $10 fee shall be deposited
as provided in subsection (c) of this section.
(c) All fees collected
pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be deposited in a
separate account by the collecting agency. Within 10 calendar days following
the beginning of each calendar month, the collecting agency shall forward the
amount deposited to the State Treasurer. The Treasurer shall deposit all fees
so received to into a special revenue account. Funds in the account
shall be disbursed by the subcommittee for the funding of law-enforcement entry
level training programs, professional development programs, the certification
of law-enforcement officers, and to pay expenses of the Governor's Committee on
Crime, Delinquency, and Correction or the subcommittee in administering the
provisions of this article, which expenses may not in any fiscal year exceed 15
percent of the funds deposited to said special revenue account during that
fiscal year.
(d) The fees established by this section may be modified by legislative rule as provided in §30-29-3 of this code.
NOTE: The bill increases the court fee established to fund law enforcement professional standards training and expenses from $2.00 to $10.00. The fee has not changed since 1982.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.