Shoplifting Fine Increase, Prior Authorizations and More: #MSLeg Roundup
Mississippi lawmakers advanced bills to raise shoplifting fines, create an alert system for people with disabilities and reform prior authorizations.
Mississippi lawmakers advanced bills to raise shoplifting fines, create an alert system for people with disabilities and reform prior authorizations.
Incarcerated people could sue jails and prisons if they encounter transgender inmates in restrooms or changing areas under a proposed bill.
Mississippi Republicans introduced bills in January to make “abortion trafficking,” advertising abortion information and mail-in abortion pills criminal offenses.
The “Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures (REAP) Act,” would prohibit standard treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking drugs by barring public funds from going to “any entity, organization or individual that provides gender transition procedures to a person under eighteen years of age.”
Twenty-five inmates at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, a city in Rankin County, will be able to work and earn at least the minimum wage starting July 1, 2022, if Gov. Tate Reeves signs Senate Bill 2437.
Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable Co-convener and State Lead Cassandra Welchlin said increasing child-support debt for those in prison harms relationships.
ACLU-MS Deputy Director Alicia N. Netterville told the Mississippi Free Press on March 9 that the first version of the 2021 Mississippi House Bill 747 allows convict-leasing, which is akin to slavery. The organization helped guide the language for the final version of the bill that became law.
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