MS HR11

Creates new House Rule 104C requiring racial and ethnic impact statements on bills, concurrent resolutions, and amendments that create new offenses, significantly modify existing offenses or penalties, or change sentencing, parole, or probation procedures.

Designates the Department of Public Safety's Office of Public Safety Planning, in consultation with the Mississippi Department of Corrections, to prepare impact statements estimating effects on racial and ethnic populations.

Impact statements must be factual and impartial and include estimates of how legislation would change the racial and ethnic composition of offenders and crime victims, along with methodologies and assumptions used.

Allows legislators to request impact statements during floor debate if not previously attached to legislation.

Requires state agencies awarding grants to include racial and ethnic impact statements in grant applications documenting any disproportionate impacts on minority persons and consultation with minority representatives.