MS HB249

Requires sex offenders convicted of registration violations to submit to mandatory electronic monitoring by the Department of Corrections for any period of supervised probation, post-release supervision, or parole upon release from incarceration.

Eliminates the previous calculation method that subtracted actual incarceration time from the five-year maximum imprisonment for registration violations, making the full monitoring period mandatory.

Prohibits courts or the Department of Corrections from suspending or reducing the period of post-release electronic monitoring.

Requires pretrial release for accused registration offenders to be conditioned on submission to electronic monitoring under Section 45-33-45.

Takes effect July 1, 2016.