West Virginia Legislative Photography Delegates join Speaker of the House Roger Hanshaw at the podium during a floor session on Thursday, April 8, 2021. A bill to rewrite the state’s criminal code won’t go into effect this year. Senators agreed on Thursday to pass an amended version of House Bill 2017. That new version reversed course and requested that a newly established sentencing commission weigh in on the bill's provisions. House leadership decided Thursday afternoon to refer the bill their Judiciary Committee, which has no plans to consider bills for the rest of the session, basically killing that specific piece of legislation.