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2023 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2491

Probation and parole; require offenders to authorize warrantless searches related to weapon or firearm offenses.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate'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 CREATE A NEW SECTION WITHIN TITLE 47, CHAPTER 7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE AN OFFENDER WHO IS PLACED ON PROBATION OR RELEASED ON PAROLE TO AGREE TO A WAIVER AS A CONDITION OF PAROLE THAT AUTHORIZES ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TO CONDUCT A WARRANTLESS SEARCH OF THE OFFENDER'S PERSON, PLACE OF RESIDENCE OR MOTOR VEHICLE FOR THE PURPOSES OF DETERMINING IF THE OFFENDER IS IN VIOLATION OF ANY WEAPON- OR FIREARM-RELATED OFFENSES; TO PROVIDE THAT THE WARRANTLESS SEARCH SHALL BE CONDUCTED IN A REASONABLE MANNER BUT SHALL NOT NEED TO BE BASED ON AN ARTICULABLE SUSPICION THAT THE OFFENDER IS COMMITTING OR HAS COMMITTED A CRIMINAL OFFENSE; TO REQUIRE THE OFFENDER TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND SIGN THE WAIVER BEFORE THE OFFENDER'S RELEASE; TO PROVIDE THAT AN OFFENDER WHO FAILS TO SIGN THE WAIVER IS INELIGIBLE FOR RELEASE ON PROBATION OR PAROLE; TO DEFINE THE TERM "RESIDENCE"; 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 16 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 16 to Jan 31 · stopped15 days

CorrectionsJan 16 to Jan 31 · 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 16 – Jan 31

  1. Jan 16Referred to the Senate committees on Corrections and on Judiciary, Division B
  2. Jan 31Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 16Referred To Corrections;Judiciary, Division BSenate
  2. Jan 31Died In CommitteeSenate