HB 645 - Classifies Killing of First Responders as First-Degree Murder - Mississippi Key Vote
Ray Rogers voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Timeline
- Executive Signed
- March 24, 2017
- House Concurrence Vote Passed
- March 16, 2017
- Senate Bill Passed
- March 8, 2017
- House Bill Passed
- Feb. 6, 2017
- Introduced
- Jan. 13, 2017
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Stage Details
Title: Classifies Killing of First Responders as First-Degree Murder
Signed by Governor Phil Bryant
Title: Classifies Killing of First Responders as First-Degree Murder
Title: Classifies Killing of First Responders as First-Degree Murder
Title: Classifies Killing of First Responders as First-Degree Murder
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
A vote to pass a bill that increases penalties for committing violent acts against police officers, firefighters, emergency responders, and members of the Mississippi Army or Air National Guard, effective July 1, 2017.
Highlights:
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Specifies that killing an emergency medical technician, first responder, fireman, utility worker, or peace officer while such individual is acting in their official capacity is considered capital murder (Sec. 2).
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Increases punishment for individuals convicted and sentenced for murder or capital murder of a peace officer, emergency medical technician, or first responder acting in their official capacity shall be punished by a term or fine 3 times that authorized by law (Sec. 4).
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Defines “peace officer” to include members of the Mississippi Army or Air National Guard (Sec. 2).
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Classifies the killing emergency medical technicians, first responders, firemen, utility workers, or peace officers as carrying a sentence of imprisonment for life without parole (Sec. 3).
- Requires individuals convicted of capital murder to be sentenced to death or imprisonment for life in State Penitentiary without parole (Sec. 3).
Title: Classifies Killing of First Responders as First-Degree Murder
- Shane Aguirre (MS - R)
- William Tracy Arnold (MS - R)
- Mark Baker (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Richard B. Bennett (MS - R)
- C. Scott Bounds (MS - R)
- Randy P. Boyd (MS - R)
- Chris Brown (MS - R)
- Larry Byrd (MS - R)
- Lester E. 'Bubba' Carpenter (MS - R)
- Gary Alan Chism (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Becky Currie (MS - R)
- Scott DeLano (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert Foster (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- J. Andrew 'Andy' Gipson (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jeffery 'Jeff' Hale (MS - R)
- Greg Haney (MS - R)
- Steve Hopkins (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Vince Mangold (MS - R)
- Steve E. Massengill (MS - R)
- Doug McLeod (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Tom Miles (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Sam C. Mims V (MS - R)
- John L. Moore (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Karl Oliver (MS - R)
- Randall H. Patterson (MS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Brent Powell (MS - R)
- Margaret Ellis Rogers (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Gary V. Staples (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joseph F. 'Jody' Steverson (MS - R)
- Patricia H. Willis (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- Henry B. 'Hank' Zuber III (MS - R)