l9n/ Mississippi

2024 Regular Session

House Bill 340

Local governments; prohibit from imposing penalties or fines on security companies when false security alarm occurs.

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

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT ANY MUNICIPALITY, COUNTY OR ANY OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION FROM ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE, RESOLUTION, RULE OR REGULATION THAT IMPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY OR FINE ON A BUSINESS ENGAGED IN THE SECURITY BUSINESS IF SUCH BUSINESS RECEIVES A FALSE SECURITY ALARM UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES; TO AMEND SECTIONS 19-3-40 AND 21-17-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, 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

January 22 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 22 to Mar 5 · stopped43 days

Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyJan 22 to Mar 5 · stopped43 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 22 – Mar 5

  1. Referred to the House committee on Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published