HB 1941 Mississippi House · 2025 Regular Session

Suffrage; restore to Christopher Preston of Covington County.

HB 1941 restores voting rights to Christopher Preston of Covington County, Mississippi, who was disqualified in 1995 after serving sentences for burglary and forgery. The bill specifically reverses his disqualification, noting he completed his sentences (five years for burglary, three for forgery, served concurrently) and has been law-abiding since his 2000 release. This is a one-time restoration for a specific individual, not a new policy affecting broader groups. The bill passed the House but died in committee before becoming law.

Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 21, 2025 Last action Apr 3, 2025

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As Introduced → Current version · 1 edit

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted and cleaned up during its passage through the House, removing original line numbers and session formatting while adding a header indicating it passed the House. The substantive legal content regarding restoring voting rights to Christopher Preston remains identical.

TECHNICAL

Removed original line numbers and session formatting from the bill text; added House passage header and cleaned up spacing and character encoding issues.

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This bill passed the House. No roll call record of that vote is available.

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Committee

Mar 21, 2025

Committee

Referred To Judiciary, Division B

upper

Mar 21, 2025

Introduced

Transmitted To Senate

lower

Mar 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed

lower

Mar 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Title Suff Do Pass

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Committee

Referred To Judiciary B

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors