l9n/ Mississippi

2015 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2799

Duties of article V; convention delegates define.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Rules Committee on February 3, 2015. The 2015 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT PRESCRIBED TO DEFINE THE DUTIES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATE DELEGATES TO A CONVENTION CALLED UNDER ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES; PROVIDE THAT A VOTE CAST BY A DELEGATE OR AN ALTERNATE DELEGATE THAT IS OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY THE LEGISLATURE IS VOID; PROVIDE THAT A DELEGATE OR ALTERNATE DELEGATE WHO VOTES OR ATTEMPTS TO VOTE OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY THE LEGISLATURE FORFEITS THE DELEGATES APPOINTMENT BY VIRTUE OF THE VOTE OR ATTEMPT TO VOTE; PROVIDE THAT THE CALL BY THE LEGISLATURE FOR AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION IS WITHDRAWN IF ALL DELEGATES AND ALTERNATE DELEGATES VOTE OR ATTEMPT TO VOTE OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY THE LEGISLATURE; PROVIDE THAT A DELEGATE OR ALTERNATE DELEGATE WHO KNOWINGLY OR INTENTIONALLY VOTES OR ATTEMPTS TO VOTE OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE INSTRUCTIONS COMMITS CRIME. ESTABLISH AN ADVISORY GROUP TO EVALUATE WHETHER A DELEGATE OR AN ALTERNATE DELEGATE HAS ACTED OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF INSTRUCTION; 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

Its course

January 19 to February 3, 2015, 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 19 to Feb 3 · stopped15 days

RulesJan 19 to Feb 3 · 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 19 – Feb 3

  1. Referred to the Senate committee on Rules
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published