SB490 HFA Rowe 3-2

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Delegate Rowe moves to amend “SB490 HFA Capito and Kirby 3-1 #1” on page 1, following the Chapter Heading by inserting the following new section:

“ARTICLE 2. crimes against the person

§61-2-1a. Penalty for murder of an officer in the line of duty.

The intentional murder of a law-enforcement officer or a corrections officer with a deadly weapon that is committed while the law-enforcement officer or corrections officer is lawfully engaged in the proper performance of his or her duties, and the perpetrator knew specifically that the law-enforcement officer or corrections officer was lawfully engaged in the proper performance of his or her duties, shall be felony murder. A person who is convicted under this section shall be punished by confinement in a correctional facility for life.”