MS HB706 | 2014 | Regular Session

Mississippi House Bill 706 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 13 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-02-13 - Died On Calendar
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

An Act To Create New Section 47-5-142.1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Prohibit An Inmate From Obtaining Any Reduction Of Sentence Through Earned Time Allowance Or Any Other Administrative Reduction If Such Inmate Was Eighteen Years Of Age Or Older When He Or She Committed Certain Felonies; To Provide That A Juvenile Offender May Be Eligible For Parole After Serving Eighty-five Percent Of His Or Her Sentence If Such Offender Was Sentenced To 35 Years Or More Of Imprisonment Or To A Term Of Natural Life With The Possibility Of Parole; To Provide That Such Juvenile May Petition For His Or Her Conditional Release In The Circuit Court In Which He Or She Was Convicted; And For Related Purposes.

Title

Earned time allowances for reduction of sentence; prohibit for certain offenders who committed certain felonies.

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-13	House	Died On Calendar
2014-02-12	House	Read the Third Time
2014-02-03	House	Title Suff Do Pass
2014-01-20	House	Referred To Corrections

Mississippi State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/history/HB/HB0706.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0706IN.htm