Public Comments

Please consider passing this bill to ensure people think twice before getting behind the wheel intoxicated. Baylea was such a bright light in the lives of so many people and the person responsible - and anyone who makes the same decision - should face the strictest consequences to ensure it doesnt happen again.

I could never image what Baylee's parents are dealing with. This law needs to pass, the fact someone could be so careless to drive while impaired is wild to me. Especially when a life can be lost!

1. I am very fortunate to not know the impacts of DUI causing death personally, but I do know several families that unfortunately do know how devastating it is to have someone carelessly making the choice to drive impaired.  I agree 100% with passing this into law.  Honestly, I feel a maximum sentence of 30 years isn’t even enough when someone recklessly makes the choice to drive so impaired that they take an innocent life.  But in regards to the current bill being purposed, they absolutely should pass it unanimously!!  15 years is hardly enough punishment for killing somebody.  They made choices that took someone’s life, they should stay behind bars long enough that they could never have the chance to live a life more fulfilled than the one they selfishly took!!

Let’s press the issue to get a law for baylea! This girl deserves justice and to be remembered. Let’s not give up on this beautiful young lady who was taken by a drunk driver also under the influence of cocaine when she had no business driving or doing drugs/alcohol. Anyone who provided this girl deserves just as much time as she gets

1. DUI laws should be harsher.  We have people with multiple DUIs resulting in death and we should make it harder for them to get out and do it again
2. nothing will ever bring Baylea or any person that had died as the result of dui and the victims family suffer for the rest of their lives
3. I understand that people should be forgiven but they should pay for what they have done first.  Make them think again before getting behind a wheel drinking and driving

I went to high-school and cheered with Baylea. What happened to her is an awful tragedy, but to know that the responsible person may only get 3 to 15 years of their life altered is a slap in the face. Baylea’s family and friends will be affected by this for the rest of their lives. The punishment should fit the crime.

Justice for Bailey!

DUI is murder. It deserves the same penalty for it.

Baylea was a great person. Her life was ended too soon due to someone else mistake. Let’s now allow slaps on the wrist for lives that have been taken.

Pass Baylee's law.

HB 4674 defines "abortifacient" so broadly it could ensnare common contraceptives that prevent implantation, chilling access to basic reproductive health tools. It violates women's bodily autonomy and privacy rights enshrined in our state constitution and wastes taxpayer resources on intrusive enforcement. Those funds are much better spent on maternal health, prenatal care, or family support programs our rural communities desperately need. Private civil bounties of $10,000 per case will only fuel vigilante lawsuits, not protect anyone.

West Virginia should expand health care access and support women making deeply personal decisions with their doctors—not police them with felonies and penalties. Prioritize actual public health over ideological overreach and scrap this bill.