l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2296

Safe Parks and Public Spaces Act; enact.

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

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO ENACT THE SAFE PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES ACT; TO STATE LEGISLATIVE INTENT; TO PROVIDE DEFINITIONS; TO PROHIBIT PUBLIC CAMPING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY NOT DESIGNATED AS A CAMPSITE; TO PROVIDE THAT A SECOND SUCH OFFENSE SHALL BE A MISDEMEANOR PUNISHABLE BY A FINE NOT TO EXCEED $100.00; TO SET FORTH REQUIREMENTS PERTAINING TO POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS; TO PROVIDE THAT STATE FUNDING TO A COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY FOR HOMELESSNESS ASSISTANCE, PREVENTION OR SERVICES SHALL BE CONDITIONAL UPON SUCH COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY ENFORCING THIS ACT; TO PROVIDE FOR SEVERABILITY IF ANY PORTION OF THIS ACT HELD TO BE INVALID; 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

Public PropertyJan 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. Referred to the Senate committees on Public Property and on Judiciary, Division B
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published