l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2791

Grand jury investigations; require notice of investigation to law enforcement officers and opportunity to testify.

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 REQUIRE THAT BEFORE A BILL OF INDICTMENT AGAINST A PRESENT OR FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER CHARGING THE OFFICER WITH A CRIME WHICH CONCERNS THE OFFICER'S USE OF LETHAL FORCE AND IS ALLEGED TO HAVE OCCURRED WHILE HE OR SHE WAS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS OR HER DUTIES IS PRESENTED TO A GRAND JURY THAT THE OFFICER SHALL BE NOTIFIED IN WRITING OF THE CONTEMPLATED ACTION BY THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY; TO REQUIRE THAT THE NOTICE TO THE OFFICER INFORM THE OFFICER OF THE GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION AND OFFER THE OFFICER THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE GRAND JURY AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE STATE'S CASE-IN-CHIEF; TO PROVIDE THAT THE OFFICER MAY BE QUESTIONED BY THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OR MEMBERS OF THE GRAND JURY; TO PROVIDE A PROCEDURE FOR THE OFFICER TO TESTIFY; TO PROVIDE THAT THE OFFICER'S ATTORNEY SHALL NOT ASK THE OFFICER QUESTIONS OR OBJECT BASED ON EVIDENTIARY GROUNDS; TO AUTHORIZE THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY TO PRESENT REBUTTAL EVIDENCE; TO PROHIBIT PROSECUTIONS FROM PROCEEDING WITHOUT A GRAND JURY INDICTMENT FOR SUCH CRIMES; 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. Jan 20Referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary, Division A
  2. Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To Judiciary, Division ASenate
  2. Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate