l9n/ Mississippi

2021 Regular Session

House Bill 1149

Crimes; require specification of degree of mental culpability required for commission of.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Judiciary B Committee on February 2, 2021. The 2021 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH STRICT CRIMINAL LIABILITY SHALL BE IMPOSED AND FOR WHICH A DEGREE OF MENTAL CULPABILITY IS REQUIRED FOR COMMISSION OF AN OFFENSE; TO DEFINE TERMS RELATED TO DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF MENTAL CULPABILITY TO BE IMPOSED FOR CRIMINAL OFFENSES; TO PROVIDE THAT THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE SPECIFICATION OF THE REQUISITE DEGREE OF CULPABILITY SHALL NOT APPLY RETROACTIVELY TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES ESTABLISHED BEFORE JULY 1, 2019; 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

1 co-sponsor

Steve Hopkins

Its course

January 18 to February 2, 2021, 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 18 to Feb 2 · stopped15 days

Judiciary BJan 18 to Feb 2 · 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 House of Representatives Jan 18 – Feb 2

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