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Senate Bill No. 716

(By Senators Chafin, Bailey, Plymale, Yoder, Jenkins and Helmick)

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[Introduced March 21, 2005; referred to the Committee

on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §31-20-10a; to amend and reenact §50-3-4a of said code; and to amend and reenact §59-1-28a of said code, all relating to creating the Regional Jail Operations Partial Reimbursement Fund; and increasing court costs for criminal and civil proceedings.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §31-20-10a; that §50-3-4a of said code be amended and reenacted; and that §59-1-28a of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
CHAPTER 31. CORPORATIONS.

ARTICLE 20. WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AUTHORITY.

§31-20-10a. Regional Jail Operations Partial Reimbursement Fund.

(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury, a new fund, designated the Regional Jail Operations Partial Reimbursement Fund.
(b) Revenues deposited into this Fund shall be composed of fees collected by magistrate courts pursuant to section four a, article three, chapter fifty and by circuit courts pursuant to section twenty-eight-a, article one, chapter fifty-nine of this code.
(c) Revenues deposited into this Fund shall be used to reimburse those counties and municipalities participating in the regional jail system for the cost of incarceration.
(d) The State Treasurer shall, in cooperation with the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority, administer the Fund. It is the responsibility of the State Treasurer to determine the amount of funds available for reimbursement and, upon receiving a report from the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority which presents the total number of inmate days in the fiscal year immediately concluded, the State Treasurer shall calculate the reimbursement to each participant based upon a pro-rata share formula.
(e) A participant's share shall be comparable with its total of inmate days, which shall consist of the number of inmates it contributed to the regional jail system and the number of days those inmates remained incarcerated.
(f) Within ninety days of the first day of July, two thousand six, each participant shall receive its reimbursement from this Fund.
CHAPTER 50. MAGISTRATE COURTS.

ARTICLE 3. COSTS, FINES AND RECORDS.
§50-3-4a. Disposition of criminal costs and civil filing fees into State Treasury account for Regional Jail and Prison Development Fund.

(a) The clerk of each magistrate court shall, at the end of each month, pay into the Regional Jail and Prison Development Fund in the State Treasury an amount equal to forty dollars of the costs collected in each criminal proceeding and all but ten dollars of the costs collected for the filing of each civil action.
(b) Beginning the first day of July, two thousand five, the clerk of each magistrate court shall collect thirty-dollars for the filing of each criminal action and twenty dollars for the filing of each civil action. This fee shall be collected in addition to any other fees currently being collected within the magistrates courts and shall in no way be construed to eliminate the collection of any other fees provided by law. At the end of each month, the clerk of the magistrate court shall deposit all fees collected pursuant to this section in the Regional Jail Operations Partial Reimbursement Fund established in section ten-a, article twenty, chapter thirty-one.
CHAPTER 59. FEES, ALLOWANCES AND COSTS, NEWSPAPERS; LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

ARTICLE 1. FEES AND ALLOWANCES.
§59-1-28a. Disposition of filing fees in civil actions and fees for services in criminal cases.

(a) Except for those payments to be made from amounts equaling filing fees received for the institution of divorce actions as prescribed in subsection (b) of this section, and except for those payments to be made from amounts equaling filing fees received for the institution of actions for divorce, separate maintenance and annulment as prescribed in said subsection, for each civil action instituted under the rules of civil procedure, any statutory summary proceeding, any extraordinary remedy, the docketing of civil appeals or any other action, cause, suit or proceeding in the circuit court, the clerk of the court shall, at the end of each month, pay into the funds or accounts described in this subsection an amount equal to the amount set forth in this subsection of every filing fee received for instituting the action as follows:
(1) Into the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Fund in the State Treasury established pursuant to the provisions of section ten, article twenty, chapter thirty-one of this code, the amount of sixty dollars; and
(2) Into the court security fund in the State Treasury established pursuant to the provisions of section fourteen, article three, chapter fifty-one of this code, the amount of five dollars; and,
(3) Into the Regional Jail Operations Partial Reimbursement Fund established pursuant to the provisions of section ten-a, article twenty, chapter thirty-one, the amount of twenty dollars. This fee shall be collected in addition to any other fees currently being collected by the circuit courts and shall in no way be construed to eliminate the collection of any other fees provided by law. At the end of each month, the clerk of the circuit court shall deposit all fees collected pursuant to this section in the Regional Jail Operations Partial Reimbursement Fund established in section ten-a, article twenty, chapter thirty one.
(b) For each action for divorce, separate maintenance or annulment instituted in the circuit court, the clerk of the court shall, at the end of each month, report to the Supreme Court of Appeals, the number of actions filed by persons unable to pay, and pay into the funds or accounts in this subsection an amount equal to the amount set forth in this subsection of every filing fee received for instituting the divorce action as follows:
(1) Into the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Fund in the State Treasury established pursuant to the provisions of section ten, article twenty, chapter thirty-one of this code, the amount of ten dollars;
(2) Into the special revenue account of the State Treasury, established pursuant to section six hundred four, article two, chapter forty-eight of this code, an amount of thirty dollars;
(3) Into the family court fund established under section twenty-two, article two-a, chapter fifty-one of this code, an amount of seventy dollars; and
(4) Into the court security fund in the State Treasury, established pursuant to the provisions of section fourteen, article three, chapter fifty-one of this code, the amount of five dollars.
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of subsection (a) or (b) of this section to the contrary, the clerk of the court shall, at the end of each month, pay into the family court fund established under section twenty-two, article two-a, chapter fifty-one of this code an amount equal to the amount of every fee received for petitioning for the modification of an order involving child custody, child visitation, child support or spousal support as determined by subdivision (3), subsection (a), section eleven of this article and for petitioning for an expedited modification of a child support order as provided in subdivision (4) of said subsection.
(d) The clerk of the court from which a protective order is issued shall, at the end of each month, pay into the family court fund established under section twenty-two, article two-a, chapter fifty-one of this code, an amount equal to every fee received pursuant to the provisions of section five hundred eight, article twenty-seven, chapter forty-eight of this code.
(e) The clerk of each circuit court shall, at the end of each month, pay into the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Fund in the State Treasury an amount equal to forty dollars of every fee for service received in any criminal case against any respondent convicted in such court and shall pay an amount equal to five dollars of every such fee into the court security fund in the State Treasury established pursuant to the provisions of section fourteen, article three, chapter fifty-one of this code.
(f) Beginning the first day of January, two thousand two, the clerk of the circuit court shall, at the end of each month, pay into the medical liability fund established under article twelve-b, chapter twenty-nine of this code, an amount equal to one hundred sixty-five dollars of every filing fee received for instituting a medical professional liability action.
(g) The clerk of the circuit court shall, at the end of each month, pay into the courthouse facilities improvement fund created by section six, article twenty-six, chapter twenty-nine of this code, those amounts received by the clerk which are dedicated for deposit in the Fund.
(h) The clerk of each circuit court shall, at the end of each month, pay into the Regional Jail Operations Partial Reimbursement Fund established in the State Treasury pursuant to the provisions of section ten-a, article twenty, chapter thirty-one of this code, an amount equal to thirty dollars for every service received in any criminal case against any respondent convicted in the court.




NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish a fund in the treasury to be used to defray the cost of housing prisoners in regional jails. Under this bill court costs in both civil and criminal cases are increased and the proceeds placed in the Regional Jail operations Reimbursement Funds.

§31-20-10a is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.






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