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2013 Regular Session

House Bill 671

Uniform traffic ticket; require issuing officer to provide written explanation of reckless or careless driving on.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Judiciary B Committee on February 5, 2013. The 2013 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-9-21, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE UNIFORM TRAFFIC TICKET LAW TO REQUIRE THE TRAFFIC TICKET, CITATION OR AFFIDAVIT ISSUED TO A PERSON ARRESTED FOR RECKLESS OR CARELESS DRIVING TO CONTAIN A PLACE FOR A WRITTEN EXPLANATION BY THE ISSUING OFFICER; TO REQUIRE THE ISSUING OFFICER TO PROVIDE A WRITTEN EXPLANATION OF SUCH RECKLESS OR CARELESS DRIVING OFFENSE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

Its course

January 21 to February 5, 2013, 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 action3 actions on 3 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 21 to Feb 5 · stopped15 days

TransportationJan 21 to Jan 3110 days

Judiciary BJan 31 to Feb 5 · stopped5 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 House of Representatives Jan 21 – Feb 5

  1. Referred to the House committees on Transportation and on Judiciary B
  2. Reported from TR to JB in the House: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Died in committee in the House
All 3 actions, as published