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WV HB5050

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

2/2/2026

Primary Sponsor

Christopher Toney

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Origin

House of Delegates

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Removes the "male" restriction from West Virginia's state convict road force, making all felony inmates regardless of sex eligible for road work assignments
  • Amends §17-5-1 of the West Virginia Code to allow the state Highways Commissioner to assign any state prison inmate to road construction and maintenance duties
  • Updates terminology from "penitentiary" to "correctional facility" and from "state road Commissioner/commission" to "state Highways Commissioner/Division of Highways"
  • Inmates may be employed in building, surfacing, and maintaining state roads, as well as working at quarries, gravel pits, crushers, and other materials facilities operated by the Division of Highways

Legislative Description

Make all state inmates regardless of sex members of the state convict road force

Corrections

Last Action

To House Judiciary

2/2/2026

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/2/2026

Full Bill Text

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