Bill Text: MS HB1507 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Habitual Offenders; classify for crimes of violence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Independent 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee [HB1507 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2020-HB1507-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative Yates
House Bill 1507
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 99-19-83, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE HOW HABITUAL OFFENDERS ARE CLASSIFIED; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 99-19-83, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
99-19-83. Every person
convicted in this state of a felony that is defined as a crime of violence
by Section 97-3-2 who shall have been convicted twice previously of any such
felony or of a federal crime that would be defined as a crime of
violence by Section 97-3-2 if such crime violated a provision of state law
upon charges separately brought and arising out of separate incidents at
different times and who shall have been sentenced to and served separate terms
of one (1) year or more, whether served concurrently or not, in any state
and/or federal penal institution, whether in this state or elsewhere, and where * * * both felonies shall
have been a crime of violence, as defined by Section 97-3-2, shall be sentenced
to life imprisonment, and such sentence shall not be reduced or suspended nor
shall such person be eligible for parole, probation or any other form of early
release from actual physical custody within the Department of Corrections.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.
