Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Corrections Committee on February 23, 2016. The 2016 session has ended.
2016 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2703
Juvenile sentencing; provide criteria for determining parole eligibility and require hearing before imposing life without parole.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE A PROCEDURE CONSISTENT WITH DECISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AND THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT FOR THE PAROLE OF CERTAIN OFFENDERS WHO WERE UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN WHEN THEY COMMITTED THE CRIMES FOR WHICH THEY ARE SENTENCED; TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED BEFORE CERTAIN JUVENILE OFFENDERS MAY BE SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE; TO AMEND SECTION 47-7-3, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM; 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
February 8 to February 23, 2016, 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 SenateFeb 8 to Feb 23 · stopped15 days
CorrectionsFeb 8 to Feb 23 · 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 Feb 8 – Feb 23
- Feb 8Referred to the Senate committee on Corrections
- Feb 23Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
- Feb 8Referred To CorrectionsSenate
- Feb 23Died In CommitteeSenate