WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
Senate Bill 194
By Senator Deeds
[Introduced February 12, 2025; referredto the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §61-2-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to criminal penalties for murder in the second degree; and parole eligibility for the crime of murder in the second degree.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
## Article 2. Crimes Against The Person
Murder of the second degree shall be punished by a definite term of imprisonment in the penitentiary which is not less than ten fifteen nor more than forty sixty years. A person imprisoned pursuant to the provisions of this section is not eligible for parole prior to having served a minimum of ten fifteen years of his or her sentence or the minimum period required by the provisions of §62-12-13, whichever is greater.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to modify the sentence and parole eligibility for murder in the second degree.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.