HB3018 HFAT Shott 3-25

Delegate Shott moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. House Bill No. 3018 – A BILL to amend and reenact §61-2-10b of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to crimes against the person; adding the definition of correctional employee; including correctional employees as a group to which the criminal penalties of malicious assault, unlawful assault, battery and assault in this section apply; providing that any person convicted of any crime in this section who is incarcerated at a facility operated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections or the West Virginia Regional Jail Authority at the time the offense was committed and whose victim is a correctional employee may not be sentenced in a manner that the sentence would run concurrently with any other sentence being served at the time of sentencing, but shall run consecutively to the current sentence. 

Adopted

Rejected