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WV HB3178
Bill
Status
Introduced
3/6/2025
Primary Sponsor
Carl Martin
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AI Summary
- Amends §17-5-1 to make all inmates convicted of felonies eligible to work on the state convict road force, removing the previous restriction that limited eligibility to male inmates only
- Road crews assembled under this article cannot be composed of both male and female persons together, requiring gender-segregated crews
- Inmates on the road force may be employed in building, surfacing, and maintaining roads, as well as working at quarries, gravel pits, sandbanks, crushers, brick kilns, and other state road commission facilities
- Updates terminology from "the penitentiary" to "a correctional facility" to reflect modern language
Legislative Description
Allow female inmates to work on state convict road crews.
Corrections
Last Action
To House Judiciary
3/6/2025
Committee Referrals
Judiciary3/6/2025
Full Bill Text
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