l9n/ Mississippi

2022 Regular Session

House Bill 459

Cyberstalking; revise to include certain kinds of social media communications.

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 SECTION 97-45-15, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO ADD CERTAIN SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TO THE CRIME OF CYBERSTALKING; TO AMEND SECTION 95-1-1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF ACTIONABLE COMMUNICATIONS; TO AMEND SECTION 95-1-5 AND 97-45-23, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING SECTION; 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 5 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 5 to Feb 1 · stopped27 days

Judiciary BJan 5 to Feb 1 · stopped27 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 5 – Feb 1

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