MS SB2469

Amends Mississippi Code Section 47-7-3 to allow a senior status judge to authorize parole eligibility for nonviolent offenders who have served 25% or more of their sentence when the sentencing judge is retired, disabled, incapacitated, or recused.

Permits another circuit judge of the same district to hear and decide parole authorization matters if the senior circuit judge must be recused.

Applies only to offenders who have not been convicted of crimes of violence under Section 97-3-2 and meet other parole eligibility requirements under existing law.

Takes effect July 1, 2020.