Mississippi House Bill 615 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on January 31 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-01-31 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Require Law Enforcement Agencies To Contact The Mississippi Bureau Of Investigation When There Is An Officer-involved Death, Involving One Of Its Officers; To Require The Bureau Of Investigation To Investigate Such Officer-involved Deaths; To Require The Bureau Of Investigation To Provide The Results Of Such Investigation To The Attorney General; To Require The Attorney General To Determine Whether The Results Of The Investigation Should Be Presented To The Grand Jury; To Require The Attorney General, If Results Require Presentation Before The Grand Jury, To Appoint A District Attorney As A Special Prosecutor To Present The Evidence To The Grand Jury; To Bring Forward Sections 45-1-6 And 99-19-77, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provide Certain Duties Of The Bureau Of Investigation; To Bring Forward Section 45-3-21, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For The Powers And Duties Of The Highway Safety Patrol; To Bring Forward Section 25-31-21, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For The Impaneling Of The Grand Jury, For Purposes Of Amendment; And For Related Purposes.

Officer-involved deaths; require investigation by Mississippi Bureau of Investigations.

Rep. Jeramey Anderson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-01-31	House	Died In Committee
2023-01-16	House	Referred To Judiciary B

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
25	31	21	New Code	See Bill Text
45	1	6	New Code	See Bill Text
45	3	21	New Code	See Bill Text
99	19	77	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/history/HB/HB0615.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0615IN.htm