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2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2236

Earned-release supervision; require Parole Board to approve release of offenders.

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

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE MISSISSIPPI PAROLE BOARD TO REVIEW AND APPROVE THE RELEASE OF AN OFFENDER UNDER THE EARNED-TIME ALLOWANCE PROGRAM; TO ESTABLISH THE PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE PAROLE BOARD IN REVIEWING THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS' RECOMMENDATION TO PLACE AN OFFENDER UNDER EARNED-RELEASE SUPERVISION; TO AUTHORIZE A HEARING BE HELD REGARDING THE PROPOSED RELEASE OF AN OFFENDER AND THAT CERTAIN NOTICE BE PROVIDED TO VICTIMS REGARDING SUCH RELEASE, UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES; TO AMEND SECTIONS 47-5-138 AND 47-7-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE AUTHORITY FOR GRANTING AN EARNED-TIME ALLOWANCE FOR CERTAIN OFFENDERS AND IN CONFORMITY TO THE PRECEDING SECTION; TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-177, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS SHALL BE NOTIFIED 15 DAYS BEFORE OFFENDERS ARE PLACED UNDER EARNED-RELEASE SUPERVISION; 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

CorrectionsJan 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 Corrections
  2. Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To CorrectionsSenate
  2. Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate