Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Drug Policy Committee on February 1, 2011. The 2011 session has ended.
2011 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2191
Controlled substances; restrict prescription of and provide criminal liability for practitioners for overdose deaths.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-29-137, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROHIBIT THE PRESCRIPTION OF ADDICTIVE DRUGS TO KNOWN DRUG ADDICTS; TO AMEND SECTION 41-29-139, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT A PRACTITIONER WHO PRESCRIBES A FATAL OVERDOSE TO A DRUG ADDICT WILL BE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
January 5 to February 1, 2011, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateJan 5 to Feb 1 · stopped27 days
Drug PolicyJan 5 to Feb 1 · stopped27 days
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.
In the Senate Jan 5 – Feb 1
- Jan 5Referred to the Senate committee on Drug Policy
- Feb 1Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
- Jan 5Referred To Drug PolicySenate
- Feb 1Died In CommitteeSenate