l9n/ Mississippi

2022 Regular Session

House Bill 219

Habitual offender law; exclude drug and nonviolent offenses when computing prior offenses under.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Judiciary B Committee on February 1, 2022. The 2022 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 99-19-81 AND 99-19-83, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT UNDER THE HABITUAL OFFENDER SENTENCING LAW ANY CONVICTION FOR A DRUG OFFENSE OR A NONVIOLENT CRIME SHALL NOT BE UTILIZED IN COMPUTING WHETHER A PERSON HAS TWO PRIOR CONVICTIONS; 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 4 to February 1, 2022, 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 4 to Feb 1 · stopped28 days

Judiciary BJan 4 to Feb 1 · 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 4 – Feb 1

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