Bill Text: MS HB1553 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Auxiliary and reserve officers, retired; allow to retain issued badge and carry concealed weapon without a permit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee [HB1553 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2020-HB1553-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative McKnight
House Bill 1553
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 45-1-71, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCLUDE AUXILIARY AND RESERVE OFFICERS IN THE LIST OF RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO MAY RETAIN THEIR ISSUED BADGE FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT UNIT; TO AMEND SECTION 45-1-101, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCLUDE CERTAIN RETIRED AUXILIARY AND RESERVE OFFICERS IN THE TYPES OF RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ELIGIBLE TO OBTAIN CERTIFICATION TO CARRY A CONCEALED WEAPON WITHOUT PERMIT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 45-1-71, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
45-1-71. Each full-time fire fighter, employed in accordance with Section 45-11-203, policeman, sheriff, deputy sheriff, auxiliary or reserve officer, or other local law enforcement officer, who retires under Section 21-29-139 or the Public Employees' Retirement System, for superannuation or for reason of disability, or any other local government retirement system shall be allowed to retain, as his personal property, the one (1) badge which is issued to him by the local government fire fighting unit or law enforcement unit.
SECTION 2. Section 45-1-101, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
45-1-101. (1) This section may be referred to as the "HR218 Qualification Law."
(2) Any retired law enforcement officer, including a retired auxiliary or reserve officer, who resides in this state and for whom the law enforcement agency from which the officer retired does not participate in the necessary certification for the retired officer to be certified according to the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 found at Title 18, Chapter 44, Section 926B, USC, or who does not reside in convenient proximity to the law enforcement agency from which the officer retired, may obtain the necessary certification from the Mississippi Association of Chiefs of Police.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.
