HB2980 S JUD AMT

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The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill 2980--A Bill to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §15-2-24d; and to amend and reenact §59-1-11 of said code, all relating to creating a special revenue account designated the State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund; providing for funding mechanisms; clarifying funding sources; establishing parameters for expenditures from the fund; vesting administration responsibility for the fund to the superintendent; relating to fees for services rendered by circuit clerks in certain civil actions; imposing additional fees in certain civil actions that include two or more named defendants, respondents or third-party defendants; setting that fee at $15 per defendant; providing for distribution of the additional fees between the general fund of the county in which the office of the circuit clerk is located and the State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund; and excluding John or Jane Doe defendants from the per-defendant fee.