MS SB2032

Authorizes nonlaw enforcement vehicles leading and facilitating military funeral processions to display blinking, rotating or oscillating purple lights, with "military funeral procession" defined as two or more vehicles accompanying a deceased U.S. Armed Forces member or traveling to the funeral service or entombment location.

Clarifies that vehicle lamps visible from the front and illuminated when in motion shall display only white or amber light unless otherwise required or permitted by law.

Designates a 2-mile segment of U.S. Highway 49 East in Leflore County, beginning at its intersection with Mississippi Highway 8 and extending northerly, as the "Highway Patrolman Tommy E. Kendall Memorial Highway."

Directs the Mississippi Department of Transportation to erect and maintain appropriate signs along the designated highway segment and to erect a suitable memorial at a site approved by the survivors and family of Highway Patrolman Tommy E. Kendall.

Effective date: July 1, 2016.