l9n/ Mississippi

2018 Regular Session

House Bill 6

Estrayed livestock; impose civil and criminal penalties upon owners of for damage caused by trespass onto property of another.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Agriculture Committee on January 30, 2018. The 2018 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES UPON OWNERS FOR LIVESTOCK THAT TRESPASS ONTO THE PROPERTY OF ANOTHER AND CAUSES PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE ON SAID PROPERTY AS A RESULT OF THE TRESPASS; TO REQUIRE THE LANDOWNER TO ATTEMPT TO CONTACT THE OWNER OF THE TRESPASSING LIVESTOCK WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS OF THE TRESPASS; TO PERMIT THE LANDOWNER TO CONTAIN THE LIVESTOCK AND RECOUP THE COST OF CONTAINMENT FROM THE OWNER OF THE LIVESTOCK; TO REQUIRE THE SHERIFF TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE LIVESTOCK IF OWNERSHIP CANNOT BE DETERMINED OR THE LIVESTOCK IS RECOVERED WITHIN TEN DAYS OF NOTIFICATION; TO AUTHORIZE THE SHERIFF TO SELL THE LIVESTOCK AFTER PUBLISHING LEGAL NOTICE AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISBURSEMENT OF THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE; 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 House of Representatives

Its course

January 2 to January 30, 2018, 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 House of RepresentativesJan 2 to Jan 30 · stopped28 days

AgricultureJan 2 to Jan 30 · stopped28 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 2 – Jan 30

  1. Referred to the House committees on Agriculture and on Judiciary B
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published