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MS SB2256

Bill

Status

Failed

3/1/2011

Primary Sponsor

Joey Fillingane

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Origin

Senate

2011 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Section 63-11-19 of the Mississippi Code to remove the State Crime Laboratory's responsibility for calibrating methods, machines, or devices used in chemical breath analysis.

  • Maintains that chemical analyses of breath, blood, or urine must still be performed according to methods approved by the State Crime Laboratory and the Commissioner of Public Safety.

  • Continues to require that analyses be performed by individuals with valid permits issued by the State Crime Laboratory.

  • Specifies which law enforcement officers are authorized to receive permits, including State Highway Patrol members, sheriffs and deputies, city police, campus police, and certain other designated officers.

  • Takes effect upon passage.

Legislative Description

Implied consent law; remove Crime Lab's responsibility to calibrate intoxilyzers and other such devices.

Last Action

Died In Committee

3/1/2011

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