Bill Text: MS HB1092 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Sex offender propensity; chancery court may order custody in mental health facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-02-04 - Died In Committee [HB1092 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2014-HB1092-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2014 Regular Session
To: Judiciary A; Public Health and Human Services
By: Representative Banks
House Bill 1092
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CHANCERY COURTS TO ORDER PERSONS WITH SEXUAL OFFENDER PROPENSITIES TO BE HELD PENDING EVALUATION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. If the chancery court finds, through evidence and testimony, that a person has a propensity to commit an act that would be considered a sex offense, as defined in Section 45-33-23, then the court shall order such person to be held in a mental health facility. Such person shall remain in the mental health facility until two (2) licensed physicians determine through physical and mental examination that such person no longer has a propensity to commit an act that would be considered a sex offense as defined in Section 45-33-23.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2014.
