l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2188

Cell location information; require providers to disclose to law enforcement under certain circumstances.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary, Division B Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO REQUIRE WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS TO PROVIDE CALL LOCATION INFORMATION CONCERNING A TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE OF A USER TO A REQUESTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT WHERE THAT INFORMATION IS SOUGHT FOR THE PURPOSE OF RESPONDING TO A CALL FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES OR IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION THAT INVOLVES THE RISK OF DEATH OR SERIOUS PHYSICAL HARM; TO AUTHORIZE A WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDER TO ESTABLISH PROTOCOLS BY WHICH THE CARRIER VOLUNTARILY DISCLOSES CALL LOCATION INFORMATION; TO PROHIBIT A CLAIM FOR RELIEF IN ANY COURT AGAINST ANY WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDER OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR PROVIDING CALL LOCATION INFORMATION IF ACTING IN GOOD FAITH UNDER THIS SECTION; TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO OBTAIN AND DISSEMINATE CONTACT INFORMATION FROM ALL WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE; 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 Senate

Its course

January 20 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 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days

Judiciary, Division BJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 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 20 – Feb 4

  1. Jan 20Referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary, Division B
  2. Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To Judiciary, Division BSenate
  2. Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate