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MS HB1981

Bill

Status

Failed

4/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Tamarra Butler-Washington

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Restores voting rights to Omar Travis of Hinds County, Mississippi, who was disqualified as an elector due to felony conviction
  • Travis was convicted on March 6, 1991, in Hinds County of burglary-residential and sentenced to five years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections
  • Additional convictions include a February 2, 2009, out-of-state burglary charge resulting in probation, and a March 14, 2016, Rankin County conviction for receiving stolen property resulting in ten years in prison
  • Travis was released to parole on February 14, 2018, and discharged from probation on February 1, 2021
  • Legislation takes effect upon passage

Legislative Description

Suffrage; restore to Omar Travis of Hinds County.

Last Action

Died In Committee

4/3/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary, Division B3/21/2025
Judiciary B3/12/2025

Full Bill Text

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