Mississippi House Bill 757 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Failed on February 1 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-02-01 - 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]

Rep. Cheikh Taylor [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-01	House	Died In Committee
2022-01-17	House	Referred To Judiciary B;Appropriations

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	25	13	Amended Code	See Bill Text
19	25	21	Amended Code	See Bill Text
21	21	3	Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/history/HB/HB0757.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0757IN.htm