WEST virginia legislature

2019 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2527

By Delegates Steele, Pack, Harshbarger, Mandt, J. Jeffries, Graves, Howell, Wilson, Foster and Kessinger

[Introduced January 18, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend and reenact §29-22-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to forgery and other crimes concerning lottery tickets; requiring any sentencing be by determinate sentence.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 22. STATE LOTTERY ACT.

§29-22-12. Crimes; forgery, counterfeiting, etc. of lottery tickets; penalties.

Any person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes or counterfeits a lottery ticket is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or be imprisoned in the penitentiary a state correctional facility for a determinate period of not less than one year, nor more than five years, or both fined and imprisoned.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that any sentence for violation of this statute be for a determinate period.

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