HB3190 S JUD AMT #1 3-6

Smith  7883

The Committee on Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill 3190— A Bill to amend and reenact § 61-3C-14b of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, to further amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-8-32;  and to amend and reenact  §61-14-1 of said code,  all  relating to criminal law generally; updating certain criminal code definitions; extending criminal liability to certain adults that use computers to solicit, entice, seduce, lure, or attempt to solicit, entice, seduce, or lure a minor, or a person representing himself or herself to be a minor, as a means to engage in specific enumerated illegal acts contained in the West Virginia Code; defining the term “minor”; expanding criminal liability to include adults who contact minors by means other than by computer and additionally engage in an overt act which is designed to put the adult in the physical presence of the minor, or a person representing himself or herself to be a minor;  and establishing criminal penalties.

Adopted

Rejected