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MS HC84

Concurrent Resolution

Official Source

Status

Failed

4/28/2010

Primary Sponsor

Noal Akins

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Origin

House of Representatives

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Suspends Joint Rules deadlines, including all provisions of Joint Rule No. 40, to allow drafting, introduction, consideration, and passage of companion legislation
  • Creates new Mississippi Code Section 1-3-24 to define "intellectual disability" for use across all statutes
  • Amends 78 sections of Mississippi Code to replace terminology referring to "mental retardation" with "intellectual disability" throughout statutes governing treatment facilities, commissions, and services
  • Modernizes statutory language related to persons with intellectual disabilities and the organizations providing treatment and care to those individuals

Legislative Description

Suspend deadlines for introduction; mental health; modernize terminology used to refer to persons with mental retardation.

Last Action

Died In Committee

4/28/2010

Full Bill Text

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