Bill Text: MS HC34 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Constitution; amend to provide that only U.S. citizens are allowed the opportunity to vote.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee [HC34 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2024-HC34-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Constitution
By: Representatives Powell, Massengill
House Concurrent Resolution 34
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 241, MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF 1890, TO PROVIDE THAT ONLY CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES ARE ALLOWED THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That the following amendments to the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 are proposed to the qualified electors of the state:
Amend Section 241, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, to read as follows:
"Section 241. * * * Only an inhabitant of this state,
except idiots and insane persons, who is a citizen of the United States of
America, eighteen (18) years old and upward, who has been a resident of this
state for one (1) year, and for one (1) year in the county in which he offers
to vote, and for six (6) months in the election precinct or in the incorporated
city or town in which he offers to vote, and who is duly registered as provided
in this article, and who has never been convicted of murder, rape, bribery,
theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery,
embezzlement or bigamy, is declared to be a qualified elector, except that he
shall be qualified to vote for President and Vice President of the United States
if he meets the requirements established by Congress therefor and is otherwise
a qualified elector."
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this proposed amendment shall be submitted by the Secretary of State to the qualified electors at an election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November 2024, as provided by Section 273 of the Constitution and by general law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the explanation of this proposed amendment for the ballot shall read as follows: "This proposed constitutional amendment provides that only citizens of the United States are allowed the opportunity to vote."
