Bill Text: MS HB297 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Riding bailiffs; increase amount of payments for each day of service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-23 - Died In Committee [HB297 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2016-HB297-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2016 Regular Session

To: Revenue and Expenditure General Bills

By: Representative Holland

House Bill 297

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 19-25-31, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF THE PAYMENT TO A RIDING BAILIFF FOR EACH DAY OF SERVICE; TO AMEND SECTION 19-19-8, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING PROVISION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 19-25-31, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     19-25-31.  Each judge of a circuit, chancery or county court, or a court of eminent domain may, in the judge's discretion, by order entered on the minutes of the court, allow the sheriff riding bailiffs to serve in the respective court of such judge, not to exceed four (4) bailiffs.  Any such person so employed shall be paid by the county on allowances of the court on issuance of a warrant therefor in an amount of * * *Fifty-five Dollars ($55.00) Eighty Dollars ($80.00) for each day, or part thereof, for which he serves as bailiff when the court is in session.  No full-time deputy sheriff shall be paid as a riding bailiff of any court.  County court judges shall be limited to one (1) bailiff per each court day.

     SECTION 2.  Section 19-19-8, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     19-19-8.  A constable * * *that who serves as a bailiff in justice court for criminal cases may be paid by the county in an amount equal to the allowance paid to riding bailiffs as provided in Section 19-25-31.

     SECTION 3.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2016.

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