Mississippi House Bill 1496 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: Failed on March 3 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Prohibit Any Privately Operated Correctional Facility From Increasing Its Housing Capacity If The Facility Is Utilized By The State To House State Offenders; To Prohibit The State From Entering Into Any New Contractual Agreement With Any Private Entity For The Housing Of State Offenders; To Amend Sections 47-4-1, 47-4-3, 47-4-5, 47-4-11, 47-5-1105, 47-5-1109, 47-5-1115, 47-5-1207, 47-5-1211, 47-5-1213 And 47-5-1219, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Preceding Section; And For Related Purposes.

Private prisons that house state offenders; provide moratorium on the expansion of.

Rep. Bo Brown [D]	Rep. Bryant Clark [D]	Rep. Otis Anthony [D]	Rep. Earle Banks [D]
Rep. Christopher Bell [D]	Rep. Ronnie Crudup [D]	Rep. Oscar Denton [D]	Rep. Jarvis Dortch [D]
Rep. John Faulkner [D]	Rep. Debra Gibbs [D]	Rep. John Hines [D]	Rep. Solomon Osborne [D]
Rep. Tracey Rosebud [D]	Rep. Zakiya Summers [D]	Rep. Rickey Thompson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	House	Died In Committee
2020-02-17	House	Referred To Corrections;Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/history/HB/HB1496.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1496IN.htm