Bill Text: MS HB1020 | 2014 | Regular Session | Engrossed

Mississippi House Bill 1020 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Duplicate license; prohibit public bodies from requiring licensees to appear in person to receive.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 9)

Status: (Failed) 2014-03-04 - Died In Committee [HB1020 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2014-HB1020-Engrossed.html

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2014 Regular Session

To: Judiciary A

By: Representatives Turner, Alday, Barton, Carpenter, Chism, Pigott, Staples, Taylor, Willis

House Bill 1020

(As Passed the House)

AN ACT TO CREATE NEW SECTION 73-52-2, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROHIBIT PUBLIC BODIES FROM REQUIRING A LICENSEE TO APPEAR IN PERSON TO RECEIVE A DUPLICATE LICENSE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. The following shall be codified as Section 73-52-2, Mississippi Code of 1972:

73-52-2. A public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, shall not require any person who has been issued a license by that public body to appear in person to receive a duplicate of an existing license granted to the person by the public body.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.