MS HR8

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

Authorizes the Department of Public Safety's Office of Public Safety Planning, in consultation with the Mississippi Department of Corrections, to prepare impact statements; any state agency must provide requested information upon request.

Impact statements must be factual, impartial, and understandable, including estimates of how legislation changes racial and ethnic composition of criminal offenders, methodology used, and racial and ethnic composition of affected crime victims.

Allows legislators to motion for impact statement preparation on the floor if one was not initially attached; the Office of Public Safety Planning must then prepare the statement.

Requires state agencies awarding grants to mandate racial and ethnic impact statements in grant applications, including analysis of disproportionate impacts on minority persons and evidence of consultation with minority representatives; applies only to grants awarded to corporations or legal entities, not natural persons.