West Virginia 2025 Regular Session

West Virginia House Bill HB2199

Introduced

2/12/25

Refer

2/12/25

Increasing and creating penalties sexual offenses

No companion bills found.

Increasing penalties sexual offenses

Increasing penalties sexual offenses

Increasing penalties for sexual assault against minors

To double the criminal penalty for anyone found guilty of sexual assault on a minor

Eliminating marital exception to criminal prosecution of sexual assault offenses

Eliminating marital exception to criminal prosecution of sexual assault offenses

Modifying definition of sexual contact

Increasing protection for minor victims of human trafficking

Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses

Increasing penalties for drug possession and updating list of offenses

Increasing penalties sexual offenses

Increasing penalties sexual offenses

Increasing penalties sexual offenses

Statutory rape and sexual assault; revise penalties.

Surgical castration; authorize as an additional penalty for statutory rape.

Statutory rape; create an exception when both teenagers are dating each other.

Statutory rape; revise elements when both are dating and in secondary school.

Capital rape; increase penalty for rape of child under 12 to death penalty or life imprisonment.