West Virginia legislation · 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia HB3274: Relating to reports of circuit court proceedings
Status: Passed both chambers, April 28, 2025
The purpose of this bill is to allow use of a court reporter or approved electronic means to take reports of circuit court proceedings.
What the bill says
An act to amend and reenact §51-7-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to reports of circuit court proceedings; and authorizing circuit courts to appoint court reporters or use electronic means approved by the Supreme Court of Appeals. ARTICLE 7. OFFICIAL REPORTERS. §51-7-1. Appointment; oath; attendance at grand jury sessions. The circuit courts of the several judicial circuits in this state, or the judges thereof in vacation, or the judges of any intermediate, criminal or common pleas court, are hereby empowered and authorized to appoint court reporters, or use electron.
From the enrolled text, April 10, 2025:
AN ACT to amend and reenact §51-7-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to reports of circuit court proceedings; and authorizing circuit courts to appoint court reporters or use electronic means approved by the Supreme Court of Appeals. ARTICLE 7. OFFICIAL REPORTERS. §51-7-1. Appointment; oath; attendance at grand jury sessions. The circuit courts of the several judicial circuits in this state, or the judges thereof in vacation, or the judges of any intermediate, criminal or common pleas court, are hereby empowered and authorized to appoint court reporters, or use electronic means approved by the Supreme Court of Appeals, to take and report, under such regulations as such judges, or any of them, may prescribe, the proceedings had and the testimony given in any case, either civil or criminal, or in any other proceeding had in such court, including the taking of testimony before the grand jury of such court for the use of the prosecuting attorney of the county, and in proceedings before the judge of such court in vacation, and otherwise to aid the judge in the performance of his or her official duties. The appointment of such reporter may be made by the judge of such court by an order entered of record, and the reporter so appointed shall be designated the "official reporter" …