l9n/ Mississippi

2024 Regular Session

House Bill 112

Parole Board hearings; provide that required notification be sent via certified mail to crime victim and immediate family members of homicide victim.

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 47-7-17, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT THE REQUIRED NOTICE FOR A PAROLE HEARING THAT IS SENT BY THE STATE PAROLE BOARD TO A VICTIM OF A CRIME OR TO THE DESIGNEE OF THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY, IN CASE OF HOMICIDE, MUST BE SENT BY CERTIFIED MAIL WHENEVER AN OFFENDER HAS A SCHEDULED PAROLE HEARING; TO REQUIRE THAT SUCH NOTICE BE SENT NOT ONLY TO THE DESIGNEE OF THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY OF A HOMICIDE VICTIM BUT ALSO TO THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS OF A HOMICIDE VICTIM; 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

1 co-sponsor

Fred Shanks

Its course

January 17 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 RepresentativesJan 17 to Mar 5 · stopped48 days

CorrectionsJan 17 to Mar 5 · stopped48 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 17 – 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