MS HB1054

Creates a Voter Enfranchisement Joint Legislative Study Committee with 14 members including legislators, executive officials, law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, and public defenders to examine voting rights restoration for nonviolent felons.

Committee shall study potential policy and law changes to restore voting rights to nonviolent felons upon completion of all sentencing requirements and examine negative societal effects of continued disenfranchisement.

Committee shall research voting restoration policies and procedures implemented by other states for nonviolent felons who have completed their sentences.

Committee must submit findings, recommendations, and any proposed legislation to the Legislature by January 1, 2018.

Appointments to the committee must be made within 30 days of the bill's enactment, with the first meeting held before August 1, 2017.