Bills affecting Formerly incarcerated or family of in Mississippi — 2026 session

Community Service Revolving Fund; extend repealer on authority to collect fees from paroled offenders for deposit into.

Parolees who participate in faith-based or faith-based sponsored activities; authorize reduction of time spent on probation.

Capital sexual battery; create crime of.

Corrections omnibus act; create.

Probation and parole officers under MS Department of Corrections; transfer to MS Department of Public Safety.

Human Trafficking; exclude from expungement felony violations of.

Parole eligibility date; nonviolent inmate may be released in discretion of State Parole Board.

Probation or post-release supervision of an inmate; clarify revocation.

Petition for parole eligibility consideration by trial court; require certain waiting period before successive filing of when petition denied.

Revocation of probation, post-release supervision or suspension of sentencing; authorize before commencement if new felony committed.

MS Earned Parole Eligibility Act of 2021; remove repealer on.

Convicted offender earned-time allowance; may be used by State Parole Board in setting parole eligibility.

Expungement and criminal liability; amend provisions related to human trafficking.

Earned-discharge credits; authorize offenders on probation/parole to earn for participation in faith-based activities.

Voting rights; restore to people who have been released from incarceration.

DOC; convert restitution centers to post-release reentry centers.

Use of restitution centers by DOC; repeal and convert centers into post-release reentry centers.

"The Juvenile Offender Parole and Rehabilitation Act"; enact.

Voting rights; restore upon satisfaction of all sentencing requirements of a conviction including parole but not probation.

Probation and parole; provide that technical violation of shall not include commission of new criminal offense.