Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb454%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=454
Timestamp: 2019-10-23 02:36:08
Document Index: 352143449

Matched Legal Cases: ['§38', '§29', '§38', '§38', '§49', '§51']

A BILL to repeal §38-5B-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §29-12D-1a of said code; to amend and reenact §38-5B-5 and §38-5B-9 of said code; to amend and reenact §49-4-716 of said code; and to amend and reenact §51-2A-8 of said code, all relating to eliminating certain fees generated by suggestee executions; and providing more efficient collection and submission of state moneys received as a result of certain court transactions or court services.
(3) For any assessment levied pursuant to this subsection on a settlement entered into by the parties, the date on which the agreement is formalized in writing by the parties shall be used to determine applicability of this provision. At the time that an action alleging a qualified claim is dismissed by the parties, the assessment shall be paid to the clerk of the court, who shall then remit the assessment to the board of Risk and Insurance Management State Treasury to be deposited in the fund. Collected assessments shall be remitted no less often than quarterly monthly. If a qualifying claim is settled prior to the filing of an action, the plaintiff, or his or her counsel, shall remit the payment to the board of Risk and Insurance Management State Treasury within sixty days of the date of the settlement agreement to be paid into the fund.
An execution issued under this article against money due and owing or to become due and owing from the state, or a state agency which shall be payable on the warrant of the State Auditor for the payment thereof directed to the judgment debtor must be served upon the State Auditor at his or her office in Charleston. In the case of money payable directly by any state agency the execution shall be served upon the Auditor of such agency, or, lacking such, upon the officer thereof whose duty it is to audit and/or to issue warrants, checks or orders for the payment of such claims. Such service shall be made by exhibiting and at the same time delivering a true copy of the original execution and paying the prescribed fee to the proper officer, or to a person in his or her office designated and authorized by the State Auditor or head of such department, institution, or agency, as the case may be, by writing filed in such office to receive it. Service of such an execution may be made by mail by the court or the clerk of the court who issued the execution or by the officer to whom the same is delivered or by any credible person, by enclosing the original suggestee execution in a postpaid wrapper addressed to the proper officer and agency together with a true copy thereof and the amount of the prescribed fee of the suggestee execution. Service by mail shall not be deemed to be complete until duly admitted and until the original execution shall have been returned to the court or the clerk of the court who issued said execution. Such admission shall be made as soon as may be in the regular course of administration after receipt of the execution. The admission may be subscribed by the officer upon whom the service is required by this section to be made or by a person in his or her office designated and authorized by the State Auditor or the head of a state agency, as the case may be, by writing filed in such office, to admit service of suggestee executions.
It shall be the duty of the proper officer, after service of an execution under this article, bearing the notation required by section four hereof if directed against salary or wages, to pay to the court or the clerk of the court who issued the execution or to the officer presenting the same judgment creditor such sums as may be or shall thereafter become due to the judgment debtor from the suggestee, or the amount thereof prescribed in section three of this article in the case of salary or wages, during the life of the execution until it shall be wholly satisfied. The proper officer or suggestee upon whom the execution or any renewal execution is served shall once every ninety days during the life of such execution and any renewal execution pay over as aforesaid the full amount of money payable, held or retained pursuant to such execution or renewal execution during the preceding ninety days.
(b) An juvenile may be given the option of proceeding in a teen court program as an alternative to the filing of a formal proceeding pursuant to section seven hundred four or section seven hundred fourteen of this article if:
(d) Any juvenile who does not successfully cooperate in, and complete, the teen court program and any disposition imposed during the juvenile's participation shall be returned to the circuit court for further disposition as provided by section seven hundred and twelve or seven hundred fourteen of this article, as the case may be or returned to the municipal court for further disposition for cases originating in municipal court consistent with any applicable ordinance.
(4) Disposition in a teen court proceeding shall consist of requiring the juvenile to perform sixteen to forty hours of community service, the duration and type of which shall be determined by the teen court jury from a standard list of available community service programs provided by the county juvenile probation system and a standard list of alternative consequences that are consistent with the purposes of this article. The performance of the juvenile shall be monitored by the county juvenile probation system for cases originating in the circuit court's jurisdiction, or municipal teen court coordinator or other designee for cases originating in the municipal court's jurisdiction. The juvenile shall also perform at least two sessions of teen court jury service and, if considered appropriate by the circuit court judge or teen court judge, participate in an education program. Nothing in this section may be construed so as to deny availability of the services provided under section seven hundred and twelve of this article to juveniles who are otherwise eligible for the service.
(g) Each county or municipality that operates, or wishes to operate, a teen court program as provided in this section is hereby authorized to adopt a mandatory fee of up to $5 to be assessed as provided in this subsection. Municipal courts may assess a fee pursuant to this section upon authorization by the city council of the municipality. The clerk of the court of conviction shall collect the fees established in this subsection. Assessments collected by the clerk of the court pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited into an account specifically for the operation and administration of a the municipal teen court program. The clerk of the court of conviction shall collect the fees established in this subsection and shall remit the fees to the teen court program Assessments collected by the clerk of the circuit court or magistrate court pursuant to this subsection shall be remitted monthly to the sheriff for deposit into an account specifically for the operation an administration of the county teen court program.
(c) Hearings before a family court shall be recorded electronically. A magnetic tape or other electronic recording medium on which a hearing is recorded shall be indexed and securely preserved by the secretary-clerk of the family court judge and shall not be placed in the case file in the office of the circuit clerk: Provided, That upon the request of the family court judge, the magnetic tapes or other electronic recording media shall be stored by the clerk of the circuit court. When requested by either of the parties, a family court judge shall provide a duplicate copy of the tape or other electronic recording medium of each hearing held. For evidentiary purposes, a duplicate of such electronic recording prepared by the secretary-clerk shall be a "writing" or "recording" as those terms are defined in rule 1001 of the West Virginia rules of evidence and unless the duplicate is shown not to reflect the contents accurately, it shall be treated as an original in the same manner that data stored in a computer or similar data is regarded as an "original" under such rule. The party requesting the copy shall pay the circuit clerk an amount equal to the actual cost of the tape or other medium or the sum of $5, whichever is greater. Unless otherwise ordered by the court, the preparation of a transcript and the payment of the cost thereof shall be the responsibility of the party requesting the transcript. The circuit clerk shall remit those amounts received monthly to the State Treasury for deposit in the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Fund designated for receipt of such moneys.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to eliminate certain fees generated by suggestee executions and to further streamline the collection of state moneys received as a result of certain court transactions or court services through more efficient technology.