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2023 Regular Session

House Bill 283

Commutation of sentences; require for certain nonviolent offenders.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Corrections Committee on January 31, 2023. The 2023 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT ANY PERSON WHO IS CONVICTED OF A DRUG OFFENSE OR A NONVIOLENT CRIME AND IS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS OR LESS AND IS HELD IN THE PHYSICAL CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SHALL HAVE HIS OR HER SENTENCE COMMUTED TO TIME SERVED; TO BRING FORWARD SECTION 47-7-3, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, FOR PURPOSES OF AMENDMENT; 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 9 to January 31, 2023, 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 9 to Jan 31 · stopped22 days

CorrectionsJan 9 to Jan 31 · stopped22 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 9 – Jan 31

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