HB 1951 Mississippi House · 2025 Regular Session

Suffrage; restore to Charity Payne of Coahoma County.

HB 1951 restores voting rights to Charity Payne of Coahoma County, Mississippi, who was disqualified in 2003 after a 5-year embezzlement conviction (released June 2008). The bill states she has been a law-abiding citizen since her release and formally reinstates her right to vote. This is a specific, individual restoration of suffrage, not a new policy affecting broader groups. The legislature passed it in March 2025, but it died in committee on April 3, 2025, so it has not become law.

Issues: ✓ Criminal Justice

Sub-Topics: Civil Rights

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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The bill text was reformatted from a standard legislative introduction style to a more compact 'As Passed the House' version, with minor formatting inconsistencies like character encoding issues (��) appearing in the enacted text. The substantive policy content regarding restoring voting rights to Charity Payne remains unchanged.

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Header and metadata formatting changed from standard introduction layout to a condensed 'As Passed the House' format with different page numbering and session identifiers.

Character encoding issues introduced in the enacted version, replacing standard text with garbled characters (��) in the enactment clause and section headers.

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

Full legislative history

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Key actions

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