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MS HB1535
Bill
Status
Failed
2/11/2010
Primary Sponsor
David Norquist
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AI Summary
- Grants chancery courts concurrent authority with the Mississippi Ethics Commission to enforce state ethics laws, including the power to issue injunctions and writs of mandamus
- Allows the Attorney General and any district attorney with jurisdiction to file ethics complaints with both the Ethics Commission and chancery courts
- Authorizes civil fines of up to $1,000 per person per violation against individual members of a public body found to have willfully and knowingly violated ethics laws
- Permits chancery court removal from office for any person fined for ethics violations on three separate occasions pursuant to three separate complaints
- Requires prevailing complainants to be awarded reasonable expenses where they win a majority of claims asserted and no special circumstances make the award unjust, with expenses assessable to the public body or individual members
- Effective date of July 1, 2010
Legislative Description
Mississippi Ethics Commission; revise jurisdiction of.
Last Action
Died On Calendar
2/11/2010
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