West Virginia 2021 Regular Session Status: Enacted 2 R cosponsors

SB 359 — Informing landowners when fencing that may contain livestock is damaged due to accident

Last action — Chapter 267, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House of Delegates
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2021. Enacted.

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 6 sponsors

    1 primary, 5 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (2 R).

  • Failed a recorded vote

    Failed 1 recorded vote so far — a real headwind.

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Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

115 added · 8 removed

Plain-language change summary

The updated bill now requires law enforcement to make a reasonable attempt to contact not just the landowner but also any known lessee if an accident damages a fence that holds livestock. This change is significant because it ensures that anyone involved in managing the land, including tenants, is informed about potential hazards or damage. This could help prevent livestock from escaping and reduce the risk of further accidents or liabilities.

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SB359 SFA #1 Takubo 4-6 Stein  7879   Senator Takubo moved to amend the House of Delegates amendment on page one, section seventeen, after the word “land” by striking out the words “by immediately reporting the fence damage to dispatch to initiate an attempt”.
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Red = new code to be enacted WEST virginia legislature regular session Enrolled Senate Bill 359 By Senators Sypolt, Stollings, Woodrum, Nelson, Baldwin, and Roberts [Passed April 9, 2021;
in effect 90 days from passage] AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17C-4-17, relating to law enforcement making reasonable attempt to contact a landowner or lessee when an accident occurs that damages a fence that could contain livestock.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 4.
ACCIDENTS.
§17C-4-17.  Notification of landowner when accident damages livestock fence.
Whenever a member of the West Virginia State Police, Natural Resources police officer, a member of a county sheriff's department, or a municipal police officer, in the regular course of their duties, reports on a crash that causes damage to any fence that could contain livestock, that officer must make a reasonable attempt following the accident to contact either the landowner or any known lessee of the land to alert the landowner or lessee of the fence damage.
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Action History

  1. Chapter 267, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

  2. Approved by Governor 4/21/21

  3. To Governor 4/16/21

  4. Approved by Governor 4/21/21 - House Journal

  5. Approved by Governor 4/21/21 - Senate Journal

  6. To Governor 4/16/21 - House Journal

  7. To Governor 4/16/21 - Senate Journal

  8. House Message received

  9. Completed legislative action

  10. Communicated to Senate

  11. House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 541)

  12. House received Senate message

  13. Senate requests House to concur

  14. Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 331)

  15. House Message received

  16. Communicated to Senate

  17. Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)

  18. Passed House (Roll No. 429)

  19. Read 3rd time

  20. Amendment adopted (Voice vote)

  21. Amendment reported by the Clerk

  22. On 3rd reading, Special Calendar

  23. Read 2nd time

  24. On 2nd reading, Special Calendar

  25. Read 1st time

  26. On 1st reading, Special Calendar

  27. Do pass

  28. To House Judiciary

  29. Do pass, but first to Judiciary

  30. To House Agriculture and Natural Resources

  31. To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary

  32. Introduced in House

  33. Ordered to House

  34. Passed Senate (Roll No. 62)

  35. Read 3rd time

  36. On 3rd reading

  37. Read 2nd time

  38. On 2nd reading

  39. Read 1st time

  40. On 1st reading

  41. Reported do pass

  42. To Agriculture and Rural Development

  43. Introduced in Senate

  44. To Agriculture and Rural Development

  45. Filed for introduction

Sponsors

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1 sponsors · 5 co-sponsors · 146 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Sypolt

Co-sponsors (5)

Not signed on (146)

146 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors SB 359?
SB 359 is sponsored by Sypolt, Stollings, Jack Woodrum (Republican), Nelson, Baldwin, and Rollan A. Roberts (Republican).
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This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2021. Enacted.
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