Mississippi House Bill 745 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Failed on March 6 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-06 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 47-7-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require An Inmate To Serve At Least One-third Of His Sentence Instead Of One-fourth Of His Sentence Before The Inmate May Become Eligible For Parole; To Provide That The Commissioner Of The Department Of Corrections Must Recommend To The State Parole Board That An Inmate Be Placed On Parole Before Such Inmate May Be Paroled; To Amend Sections 47-7-5 And 47-7-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity Thereto; And For Related Purposes.

Parole; require offender serve at least 1/3 of sentence and that commissioner recommend parole before offender is eligible for.

Rep. Gary Chism [R]

Rep. Mark Formby [R]

Rep. John Moore [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-06		Died In Committee
2012-02-20		Referred To Corrections

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2012/pdf/history/HB/HB0745.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0745IN.htm