Legislative Session January 7, 2025 – April 6, 2025
The 2025 Legislative Session began on January 7, 2025, and is scheduled to continue until April 6, 2025. Below is a list of bills and resolutions being monitored by the MCADV policy program during this session. For more information about these bills, please visit the Mississippi State Legislative Website at www.legislature.ms.gov [BUTTON]. You may also reach out to Luis Montgomery, Compliance & Public Policy Specialist, at luis.montgomery@mcadv.org for further inquiries.
Bills and Resolutions
HB 1551 – Domestic Violence Fatalities
Sponsors: Nelson, Gibbs, James-Jones
Referrals: Public Health & Human Services
Status: Died in Senate Judiciary A Committee
An act to create the domestic violence fatality review board within the state department of health.
HB 928 – SANE Nurses
Sponsors: McLean, McKnight, Shanks, Waldo, Wallace, Summers, Hobgood-Wilkes
Referrals: Public Health & Human Services
Status: Died in Senate Public Health & Welfare Committee
Hospitals require those with ERs to have trained personnel on duty to conduct examinations of victims of sexual assault.
SB 2886- Domestic Violence Fatalities
Sponsors: Wiggins
Referrals: Judiciary A
Status: Passed as Amended/Returned to Senate for Concurrence
An act to enact the Mississippi domestic violence fatality review team law; to establish a statewide domestic violence fatality review team within the department of public safety; to authorize the establishment of domestic violence fatality review teams within the circuit court districts of the state; to provide guidelines for the membership of the teams; to provide that a team shall review fatal and near-fatal incidents of domestic violence, related domestic violence matters, and suicides within its jurisdiction; to provide that the purpose of a team under this section shall be to learning how to prevent domestic violence through early intervention and improving the quality of the response by individuals and institutions to domestic violence; to provide limited civil immunity for team members and certain other persons; to provide procedures for information, testimony, records, reports, recommendations, or other evidence obtained, generated, or transmitted by a team; and for related purposes
HB 863 – Sexual Assault Victims Rights
Sponsors: McLean
Referrals: Judiciary B
Status: Died in Senate Judiciary B Committee
MS Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights; Revise to expand for sexual assault victims.
