HB5621 HFAT Akers 2-23

Morgan 3345

Delegate Akers moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

H. B. 5621 -- “A BILL to amend and reenact §55-7-22 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to employment protections for employees who are physically attacked, or in reasonable apprehension of being physically attacked, by another person, who is not an employee co-worker, at their place of employment and who uses reasonable and proportionate force to defend themselves or others shall not be subject to adverse actions by their employer, including, but not limited to, termination of their employment solely for the act of such use of reasonable and proportionate force; relating to permissive use of deadly force against an attacker in their place of employment, without a duty to retreat, if the person reasonably believes that he or she or another is in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm from which he or she or another can only be saved by the use of deadly force against the intruder or attacker.”;

Adopted

Rejected