MS HB317

Expands who may file ethics complaints to include the Attorney General and any district attorney having jurisdiction, in addition to any person.

Grants chancery courts concurrent authority with the Mississippi Ethics Commission to enforce ethics provisions and issue injunctions and writs of mandamus.

Allows the Ethics Commission or chancery court to nullify and void any action taken by a public body in connection with an ethics violation.

Increases civil fines for individual members of a public body found in violation from unspecified amounts to $1,000 per person for each violation, plus reasonable expenses incurred by the complainant where they prevail on a majority of claims.

Permits removal from office by chancery court upon petition for any person fined for ethics violations on three separate occasions under three separate complaints.