WV HB5336

Adds "coercive control" as a new category of domestic violence under West Virginia Code §48-27-202

Defines coercive control as a pattern of threatening, humiliating, or intimidating actions used to harm, punish, or frighten an individual and strip away their sense of self and independence

Specifies eight types of coercive control behaviors: isolating victims from friends and family, controlling access to money, monitoring activities and communications, name-calling and degradation, threatening harm to the victim or their children/relatives, threatening to report to authorities, damaging property, and forcing participation in criminal activity

Creates new code section §48-27-202a to establish the statutory definition of coercive control

Amends existing domestic violence statute to include coercive control alongside physical harm, sexual assault, stalking, and unlawful detention