Mississippi House Bill 963 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Failed on March 3 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Require Law Enforcement Agencies To Contact The Mississippi Bureau Of Investigation When There Is An Officer-involved Death, Involving One Of Its Officers; To Require The Bureau Of Investigation To Investigate Such Officer-involved Deaths; To Require The Bureau Of Investigation To Provide The Results Of Such Investigation To The Attorney General; To Require The Attorney General To Determine Whether The Results Of The Investigation Should Be Presented To The Grand Jury; To Require The Attorney General To, If Results Require Presentation Before The Grand Jury, To Appoint A District Attorney As A Special Prosecutor To Present The Evidence To The Grand Jury; To Bring Forward Sections 45-1-6 And 99-19-77, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provide Certain Duties Of The Bureau Of Investigation; To Bring Forward Section 45-3-21, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For The Powers And Duties Of The Highway Safety Patrol; To Bring Forward Section 25-31-21, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Provides For The Impaneling Of The Grand Jury, For Purposes Of Amendment; And For Related Purposes.

Officer-involved death; require investigation and appointment of special prosecutor.

Rep. Kabir Karriem [D]

Rep. Cheikh Taylor [D]

Rep. Omeria Scott [D]

Rep. Solomon Osborne [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	House	Died In Committee
2020-02-14	House	Referred To Judiciary B

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/history/HB/HB0963.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0900-0999/HB0963IN.htm