Bill Text: MS HB1197 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adoption; revise fines for illegal placement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-02-05 - Died In Committee [HB1197 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2013-HB1197-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2013 Regular Session

To: Judiciary B

By: Representative Aldridge

House Bill 1197

     AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-15-123, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE FINE IMPOSED FOR ILLEGAL PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 43-15-123, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     43-15-123.  Any person, agency, association, corporation, institution, society or other organization violating the provisions of this article shall be guilty of illegal placement of children and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed * * *Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) or by imprisonment not more than five (5) years, or both such fine and imprisonment.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2013.

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