Bill Text: MS HB1249 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Sex offender propensity; chancery court may order custody in mental health facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2011-02-01 - Died In Committee [HB1249 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2011-HB1249-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2011 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative Banks
House Bill 1249
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CHANCERY COURTS TO ORDER PERSONS WITH SEXUAL OFFENDER PROPENSITIES TO BE HELD PENDING EVALUATION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. If the chancery court finds, through evidence and testimony, that a person has a propensity to commit an act that would be considered a sex offense, as defined in Section 45-33-23, then the court shall order such person to be held in a mental health facility. Such person shall remain in the mental health facility until two (2) licensed physicians determine through physical and mental examination that such person no longer has a propensity to commit an act that would be considered a sex offense as defined in Section 45-33-23.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2011.
