Mississippi Senate Bill 2450 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-01-30 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Require Law Enforcement Agencies To Contact The Mississippi Bureau Of Investigations When There Is An Officer-involved Death, Involving One Of Its Officers; To Require The Bureau Of Investigations To Investigate Such Officer-involved Deaths; To Require The Bureau Of Investigations 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 To, 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 Investigations; 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 death; require investigation and appointment of special prosecutor.

Sen. Juan Barnett [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-30	Senate	Died In Committee
2018-01-15	Senate	Referred To Judiciary, Division A

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf/history/SB/SB2450.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2450IN.htm