WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 712

By Senators Plymale, Woelfel, Jeffries, Stollings, and Takubo

[Introduced February 5, 2020; referred
to the Committee on Education]

A BILL to amend and reenact §5-2-24c of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to correcting the name of the Forensic Analysis Laboratory of the Marshall University Forensic Science Center.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2. WEST VIRGINIA STATE POLICE.

§15-2-24c. Relationship with Marshall University Forensic Science Center.

(a) The Forensic DNA Analysis Laboratory of the Marshall University Forensic Science Center is hereby declared to be engaged in the administration of criminal justice as that term is defined in 28 C. F. R. 20.3(b).

(b) The Marshall University Forensic Science Center and the West Virginia State Police shall confer with each other as to available grants or similar possible funding sources and applications therefor.

(c) To avoid duplicative and wasteful use of limited resources and to ensure maximum utilization of available funds, the West Virginia State Police shall have primacy of decisionmaking over the Marshall University Forensic Science Center with regard to applications for particular grants or funding in which both entities may have an interest to which the Marshall University Forensic Science Center shall accede.

(d) The West Virginia State Police and the Marshall University Forensic Science Center shall execute a written agreement to ensure compliance with the provisions of subsection (c) of this section.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to correct the name of the Forensic Analysis Laboratory of the Marshall University Forensic Science Center.

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