l9n/ Mississippi

2022 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2389

Suffrage; provide for restoration upon completion of sentence and other conditions.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Elections Committee on February 1, 2022. The 2022 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO CREATE THE RESTORATION OF VOTING RIGHTS ACT; TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON WHO WAS DISQUALIFIED AS AN ELECTOR FOR COMMISSION OF CERTAIN CRIMES SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE RESTORED AUTOMATICALLY UPON COMPLETION OF THE SENTENCE AND FOLLOWING A TWO-YEAR WAITING PERIOD; TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, IN CONFORMITY; 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 Senate

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 SenateJan 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days

ElectionsJan 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 Senate Jan 17 – Feb 1

  1. Referred to the Senate committees on Elections and on Constitution
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published