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2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2487

Aggravated DUI; order child support to children of deceased victim.

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 CREATE A NEW SECTION WITHIN TITLE 63, CHAPTER 11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT A DEFENDANT CONVICTED OF AGGRAVATED DUI WHERE THE DECEASED VICTIM OF THE OFFENSE WAS THE PARENT OF A MINOR CHILD SHALL PAY RESTITUTION IN THE FORM OF CHILD SUPPORT; TO PROVIDE THAT THE COURT SHALL DETERMINE AN AMOUNT THAT IS REASONABLE AFTER CONSIDERED CERTAIN FACTORS; TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISBURSEMENT OF THE SUPPORT TO THE CHILD'S PARENT OR GUARDIAN; TO PROVIDE FOR THE DEFENDANT'S INABILITY TO PAY DURING INCARCERATION; TO PROVIDE THAT CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS SHALL CONTINUE UNTIL PAID IN FULL WITHOUT REGARD TO THE AGE OF THE CHILD; TO PROVIDE THAT A CHILD SUPPORT ORDER UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL BE OFFSET BY A SUBSEQUENT CIVIL JUDGMENT ENTERED AGAINST THE DEFENDANT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MINOR CHILD; 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 committees on Judiciary, Division B and on Judiciary, Division A
  2. Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To Judiciary, Division B;Judiciary, Division ASenate
  2. Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate