House Bill 1352 Summary

• Renames "drug courts" to "intervention courts" to include mental health courts, veterans courts, and other problem-solving courts under unified oversight of the State Intervention Courts Advisory Committee.

• Removes the word "pilot" from the Rivers McGraw Mental Health Program, making it a permanent program rather than a temporary pilot initiative.

• Eliminates driver's license suspension for traffic violations based on contempt for failure to pay fines or fees, replacing it with debt collection procedures; changes notice period from 10 days to 90 days before court collection efforts begin.

• Removes mandatory driver's license suspension for controlled substance violations unrelated to operating a motor vehicle; keeps suspension only for driving under the influence of controlled substances.

• Expands expungement eligibility to include persons found not guilty at trial and broadens felony expungement to allow one expunction five years after sentence completion, except for violent crimes, trafficking, sex offenses, and certain other serious felonies; allows medication-assisted treatment in intervention courts and opts Mississippi out of federal SNAP eligibility restrictions for drug offenders.