Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Finance Committee on January 31, 2023. The 2023 session has ended.
2023 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2021
First Responder Appreciation and Recruitment Act; create.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO CREATE THE "FIRST RESPONDER APPRECIATION AND RECRUITMENT ACT"; TO CREATE A NEW SECTION IN TITLE 25, CHAPTER 11, ARTICLE 3, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO IMPLEMENT THE "FIRST RESPONDERS RETIREMENT INCENTIVE"; TO PROVIDE, FOR THIS INCENTIVE, THAT ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM HIRED ON OR AFTER JULY 1, 2011, SHALL EARN ONE YEAR OF CREDITABLE SERVICE AT NO COST TO MEMBERS FOR EVERY FIVE YEARS SERVED AS A FIRST RESPONDER IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI; TO PROVIDE THAT, IN ORDER TO USE THIS INCENTIVE, THE FIRST RESPONDER MUST NOT HAVE ANY FELONY CONVICTIONS AT THE TIME OF RETIREMENT; TO AMEND SECTIONS 25-11-103, 25-11-105, 25-11-109, 25-11-111, 25-11-113, 25-11-114 AND 25-11-117, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REDUCE THE VESTING PERIOD FOR RETIREMENT BENEFITS IN THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM FROM EIGHT YEARS TO FOUR YEARS FOR PERSONS HAVING JOINED THE SYSTEM ON OR AFTER JULY 1, 2007, BUT HAVING AT LEAST FOUR YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE SYSTEM AS FIRST RESPONDERS; 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
Sponsor
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 SenateJan 9 to Jan 31 · stopped22 days
FinanceJan 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.