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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 940

Voting rights and felony expungement; person may have voting rights restored and certain felony records expunged after five years.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives on February 13, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON WHO IS OTHERWISE A QUALIFIED ELECTOR AND HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF CERTAIN DISENFRANCHISING CRIMES, EXCEPT FOR ARSON, ARMED ROBBERY, CARJACKING, EMBEZZLEMENT, MURDER, RAPE, SEXUAL BATTERY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, CHILD EXPLOITATION, COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY, OR STATUTORY RAPE, SHALL HAVE HIS OR HER RIGHT TO VOTE REVOKED, BUT SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE AUTOMATICALLY RESTORED AFTER HE OR SHE HAS SATISFIED ALL OF THE SENTENCING REQUIREMENTS OF THE CONVICTION; TO AMEND SECTIONS 23-15-19, 23-15-125, 23-15-151, 23-15-153 AND 23-15-165, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING SECTION; TO BRING FORWARD SECTIONS 97-39-3 AND 99-19-37, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, FOR THE PURPOSE OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENT; TO AMEND SECTION 99-19-71, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT ANY PERSON WHO IS A UNITED STATES CITIZEN, WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF CERTAIN FELONIES SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO HAVE HIS OR HER RECORD AUTOMATICALLY EXPUNGED FIVE YEARS AFTER COMPLETION OF ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUCH CONVICTION; TO AMEND SECTIONS 45-27-7, 45-27-21 AND 45-34-3, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THAT THE CIRCUIT CLERK, UPON THE ENTERING OF AN ORDER OF EXPUNCTION, FORWARD A CERTIFIED COPY OF SUCH ORDER TO THE MISSISSIPPI CRIMINAL INFORMATION CENTER AT THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY; TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO REMOVE SUCH PERSON'S CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION, CONVICTION INFORMATION, AND DISPOSITION FORM FROM THE MISSISSIPPI CENTRAL CRIMINAL DATABASE WITHIN FORTY-FIVE DAYS OF RECEIVING A CERTIFIED COPY OF SUCH ORDER OF EXPUNCTION; TO BRING FORWARD SECTIONS 45-1-45, 45-27-9, 45-27-11 AND 45-34-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, FOR PURPOSES OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENT; 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

2 co-sponsors

Fred Shanks, Kevin Felsher

Its course

January 17 to February 13, 2025, 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 action3 actions on 3 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 17 to Feb 13 · stopped27 days

ConstitutionJan 17 to Feb 418 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 – Feb 13

  1. Jan 17Referred to the House committee on Constitution
  2. Feb 4Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass as a committee substitute
  3. Feb 13Died on the calendar in the House
All 3 actions, as published
  1. Jan 17Referred To ConstitutionHouse of Representatives
  2. Feb 4Title Suff Do Pass Comm SubHouse of Representatives
  3. Feb 13Died On CalendarHouse of Representatives