| 2022 WV H 4299 | | Author: | Holstein | | Version: | Enacted | | Version Date: | 03/09/2022 |
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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2022 REGULAR SESSION
ENROLLED
House Bill 4299
BY DELEGATES HOLSTEIN, HORST, SYPOLT, HANNA,
LINVILLE, WAMSLEY, KEATON, KIMBLE, PACK, SUMMERS,
AND TULLY
[Passed February 24, 2022; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §3-9-21, relating to creating the misdemeanor criminal offense of intentionally physically interfering with a voter’s travel on walkways, driveways, and parking areas of a polling place with the intent to delay, hinder, harass, interrupt, or intimidate a voter; and establishing penalties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 9. OFFENSES AND PENALTIES.
§3-9-21. Improper interference with voters’ travel to and from the polls; penalties.
Any person, during hours a polling place is open for any election, who intentionally physically interferes with a voter’s travel on the walkways, driveways, and parking areas adjacent to a building in which a polling place is located with the intention to delay, hinder, interrupt, harass, or intimidate a voter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than $1,000 or confined in jail for not more than one year or both fined and confined.
