Bill Text: MS HC40 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Constitution; amend to provide that an individual who has been convicted of a felony is not a qualified elector.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee [HC40 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2024-HC40-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Constitution
By: Representative Arnold
House Concurrent Resolution 40
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 241, MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF 1890, TO PROVIDE THAT AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY FELONY IS NOT A QUALIFIED ELECTOR; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That the following amendment to the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 is proposed to the qualified electors of the state:
Amend Section 241, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, to read as follows:
"Section 241. Every
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 * * *, bigamy, or any other felony, 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."
