l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2476

Grand jury; allow access to record to defendant upon request.

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

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO CREATE NEW SECTION 13-5-62, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE A COURT TO MAKE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION A RECORD OF THE GRAND JURY PROCEEDING TO THE DEFENDANT OR HIS OR HER COUNSEL WHEN A GRAND JURY RETURNS AN INDICTMENT; TO AUTHORIZE PRODUCTION OF CERTAIN COPIES IN THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT; TO PROVIDE THAT ANY COPIES OF THE RECORD SHALL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL; 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 AJan 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 committee on Judiciary, Division A
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published