MS SB2250

Requires a child to have reached their fifteenth birthday before being tried in circuit court for offenses punishable by life imprisonment, death, or felonies involving deadly weapons (previously no age minimum specified)

Adds requirement that offenses must cause death or serious bodily injury to another person before circuit court has original jurisdiction over juvenile offenders

Limits youth court's ability to transfer cases to circuit court only when the offense caused bodily injury to another, and removes the court's ability to initiate transfers on its own motion (must be prosecutor's motion only)

Removes provision that prevented any firearm offense by a child 15 or older from being transferred to youth court

Effective date of July 1, 2022