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2022 Regular Session

House Bill 798

Reports of suspected abuse; require persons who make to give their name and contact information under certain circumstances.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Public Health and Human Services 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 43-21-353 AND 43-47-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE PERSONS WHO MAKE REPORTS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES ABOUT THE SUSPECTED NEGLECT OR ABUSE OF A CHILD OR THE SUSPECTED ABUSE, NEGLECT OR EXPLOITATION OF A VULNERABLE PERSON TO PROVIDE THEIR NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER TO THE DEPARTMENT, AFTER THERE HAVE BEEN TWO REPORTS MADE ABOUT THE ALLEGED PERPETRATOR WITHIN A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS AND THE APPROPRIATE DEPARTMENT HAS INVESTIGATED THE REPORTS AND DETERMINED THAT THE COMPLAINTS OR ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE ALLEGED PERPETRATOR ARE UNFOUNDED; TO PROVIDE THAT THE NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF THE PERSON WHO MADE THE REPORT SHALL BE REDACTED FROM ALL RECORDS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CASE AFTER THE CASE IS CLOSED; 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 17 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 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days

Public Health and Human ServicesJan 17 to Feb 1 · 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 17 – Feb 1

  1. Jan 17Referred to the House committee on Public Health and Human Services
  2. Feb 1Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 17Referred To Public Health and Human ServicesHouse of Representatives
  2. Feb 1Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives