Bill Text: MS HB870 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Simple assault fines and penalties; revise for deposits in certain funds.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee [HB870 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2024-HB870-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative Burch
House Bill 870
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 99-19-75, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE FINES AND PENALTIES FOR MISDEMEANOR SIMPLE ASSAULT VIOLATIONS DEPOSITED INTO THE "VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION FUND"; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 99-19-75, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
99-19-75. (1) In addition to any monetary penalties and any other penalties imposed by law, there shall be imposed and collected from each person upon whom a court imposes a fine or other penalty for any violation of Section 97-3-65, 97-5-1 et seq. or 97-3-7, when committed against a minor, an assessment of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to be deposited into the Mississippi Children's Trust Fund created in Section 93-21-305, using the procedures described in Section 99-19-73.
(2) (a) In addition
to any monetary penalties and any other penalties imposed by law, there shall
be imposed and collected from each person upon whom a court imposes a fine or
other penalty for any violation of Section * * * 97-3-54.1, 97-3-65, 97-3-95,
97-5-1 et seq., * * *
97-29-51 or felony violation of Section 97-3-7 an assessment of One
Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to be deposited into the "Victims of Human
Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation Fund" created in Section 97-3-54.11.
(b) In addition to any monetary penalties and any other penalties imposed by law, there shall be imposed and collected from each person upon whom a court imposes a fine or other penalty for a misdemeanor violation of Section 97-3-7, an assessment up to One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to be deposited into the "Victims of Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation Fund" created in Section 97-3-54.11.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2024.
