Bill Text: MS SB2255 | 2013 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Karen's Law; revise punishment for manslaughter of certain child victims.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-03-20 - Approved by Governor [SB2255 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2013-SB2255-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2013 Regular Session
To: Judiciary, Division B
By: Senator(s) McDaniel
Senate Bill 2255
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO BE KNOWN AS "KAREN'S LAW"; TO AMEND SECTION 97-3-25, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE MAXIMUM IMPRISONMENT FOR PERSONS WHO WERE OVER THE AGE OF 21 WHEN CONVICTED OF THE HOMICIDE OF A CHILD OF A CERTAIN AGE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 97-3-25, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
97-3-25. (1) Except as
otherwise provided in this section, any person convicted of manslaughter
shall be fined in a sum not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or
imprisoned in the county jail not more than one (1) year, or both, or in the * * * custody of the Department of
Corrections not less than two (2) years, nor more than twenty (20) years.
(2) (a) A person is guilty of child homicide if:
(i) The person is found guilty of manslaughter in circumstances where the killing, although without malice, was intentional and not accidental; and
(ii) The perpetrator was over the age of twenty-one (21) years and the victim was a child under the age of eighteen (18) years.
(b) A person found guilty of child homicide shall be imprisoned in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not to exceed thirty (30) years.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2013.
