The Senate Committee on the Judiciary met Wednesday evening to discuss five House Bills and one Senate Resolution on the Committee agenda.
House Bill 2362 would attempt to place in Code language which allows counties to adopt a policy which allows any qualified voter to vote by emergency absentee ballot who is confined to a specific location within the county on or after the seventh day preceding an election and prevented from travelling to a polling place and voting in person because of:
1) Illness, injury or other medical reason
2) Physical disability or immobility due to extreme advanced age
The Committee adopted an amendment to add a new section for greater clarification for the proposed legislation.
House Bill 2975 directly relates to the Division of Corrections (DOC). Currently, it is a felony for a parole officer employed by the Division of Corrections and an adult or juvenile probation officer employed by the WV Supreme Court to engage in sexual intercourse, sexual intrusion or sexual contact with a person the officer is charged with supervising. The bill would include employees and contract employees of a day report center to those prohibited from engaging in sexual acts with those persons under their supervision.
House Bill 3083 would add temporary work during the legislative session (such as per diem workers) as exclusion to the term employment for purposes of unemployment compensation.
House Bill 2609 would to prevent unnecessary reporting and administrative costs associated with reporting of accounts held by a financial organization for active customers of the financial organization.
House Bill 2907 would require a form of a certified commitment order to the DOC and Rehabilitation.
Originating Senate Concurrent Resolution 1 would request a study of wages of people with disabilities. Currently, West Virginia ranks 50th for paying of people with disabilities. The Resolution would require the Joint Committee on the Judiciary to issue a study on the pay of people with disabilities.
All five House bills and the originating resolution were approved by the Committee, and will be reported to the full Senate to be voted upon.
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