2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2027

Radar; authorize limited use of by sheriffs.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Highways and Transportation Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-519, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTIES IN ANY COUNTY TO USE RADAR SPEED DETECTION EQUIPMENT UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, ROADS AND HIGHWAYS WITHIN THE COUNTY, LYING OUTSIDE THE LIMITS OF ANY INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITY; TO EXCLUDE ANY INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS OR FOUR-LANE STATE HIGHWAYS FROM RADAR DETECTION BY SHERIFFS; TO PROVIDE FOR THE NUMBER OF RADAR GUNS ELIGIBLE FOR PURCHASE BY A COUNTY BASED ON THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME DEPUTIES IN THE COUNTY; TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF RADAR WITHIN 500 YARDS OF THE BOUNDARY LINE OF A MUNICIPALITY, THE BOUNDARY LINE OF THE COUNTY AND A SPEED LIMIT CHANGE; TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN FUNDS SHALL BE DIRECTED TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE CITATION WAS ISSUED TO BE USED FOR SCHOOL SAFETY PURPOSES AND DRIVER'S EDUCATION PROGRAMS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Its course

January 17 to February 4, 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 action2 actions on 2 days

In the SenateJan 17 to Feb 4 · stopped18 days

Highways and TransportationJan 17 to Feb 4 · stopped18 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 17 – Feb 4

Jan 17Referred to the Senate committees on Highways and Transportation and on Judiciary, Division B
Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate

All 2 actions, as published

Jan 17Referred To Highways and Transportation;Judiciary, Division BSenate
Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate