Bill Text: MS HB1285 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Drug-free zones; revise penalties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-02-03 - Died In Committee [HB1285 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2015-HB1285-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative Horan
House Bill 1285
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-29-142, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE PROVISIONS OF LAW REGULATING THE DRUG-FREE ENHANCEMENTS PENALTIES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 41-29-142, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
41-29-142. (1) Except as
provided in subsection (f) of Section 41-29-139 or in subsection (2) of this
section, any person who violates or conspires to violate Section 41-29-139(a)(1),
Mississippi Code of 1972, by selling, bartering, transferring, manufacturing,
distributing, dispensing or possessing with intent to sell, barter, transfer,
manufacture, distribute or dispense, a controlled substance, while knowingly
in or on, or within * * * five hundred (500) feet of, a
building or outbuilding which is all or part of a public or private elementary,
vocational, or secondary school * * * at a time when persons under eighteen (18) years of
age are reasonably expected to be present shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punished by the term of imprisonment or a fine, or both, of that authorized
by Section 41-29-139(b) and, in the discretion of the court, may be punished by
a term of imprisonment or a fine, or both, of up to twice that authorized by
Section 41-29-139(b).
(2) * * *
Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply
to an offense, if: the offense was committed inside a private residence; and
no person under eighteen (18) years of age was present in the private residence
at the time the offense was committed.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.