Mississippi House Bill 225 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on February 5 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-02-05 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 21-21-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The Governing Authorities Of Municipalities To Provide Police Officers, Who Are On Patrol, With Body-worn Cameras; To Define The Term "body-worn Camera"; To Amend Section 19-25-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require County Boards Of Supervisors To Include Allocations For Body-worn Cameras In The Annual Budgets For Sheriffs' Offices; To Amend Section 19-25-21, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Deputy Sheriffs, Who Are On Patrol, To Wear Body-worn Cameras; To Create A New Section To Provide Certain Penalties For Police Officers And Sheriff Deputies Who Fail To Wear Body-worn Cameras While On Patrol; And For Related Purposes.

Body-worn cameras; require cities and counties to provide to police officers and deputy sheriffs.

Rep. Kabir Karriem [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Died In Committee
2019-01-14	House	Referred To County Affairs;Municipalities

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/history/HB/HB0225.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0225IN.htm