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2024 Regular Session

House Bill 1065

Parole eligibility; revise for minors who committed offenses while under the age of 18.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Corrections Committee on March 5, 2024. The 2024 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-7-3, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT IF A PERSON WAS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN AT THE TIME HE OR SHE COMMITTED A VIOLENT OFFENSE AND SUCH PERSON IS NOT OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE AT AN EARLIER DATE, THEN THE PERSON SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE ONCE HE OR SHE HAS REACHED TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE; TO AMEND SECTION 47-7-3.2, TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING SECTION; 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

February 8 to March 5, 2024, 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 RepresentativesFeb 8 to Mar 5 · stopped26 days

CorrectionsFeb 8 to Mar 5 · stopped26 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 Feb 8 – Mar 5

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