Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee on February 1, 2011. The 2011 session has ended.
2011 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2911
Paternity; provide circumstances for disestablishment and clarify genetic testing requirements.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO CODIFY SECTION 93-9-10 AND AMEND SECTION 93-11-71, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH A LEGAL FATHER MAY DISESTABLISH PATERNITY AND TERMINATE A CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATION; TO AMEND SECTION 93-9-21, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO ALLOW GENETIC TESTING ONLY WHEN PATERNITY HAS NOT BEEN PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED; TO AMEND SECTION 93-9-28, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE AMOUNT OF TIME A PERSON HAS TO RESCIND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PATERNITY AFTER HAVING ACKNOWLEDGED PATERNITY AND SAID ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IS ADDED TO THE CHILD'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE; 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 17 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 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days
Public Health and WelfareJan 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 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 17 – Feb 1
- Jan 17Referred to the Senate committees on Public Health and Welfare and on Judiciary, Division A
- Feb 1Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
- Jan 17Referred To Public Health and Welfare;Judiciary, Division ASenate
- Feb 1Died In CommitteeSenate