HB 1977 Mississippi House · 2025 Regular Session

Suffrage; restore to Jose Williams of Hinds County.

HB 1977 restores voting rights to Jose Williams of Hinds County, Mississippi, who was disqualified after a 1991 conviction for grand larceny (resulting in a 6-month sentence and 5-year probation). The bill states Williams was released on parole in 1991 and has since been a law-abiding citizen. This is a one-time restoration for an individual, not a change to general voting laws. The bill passed the House in March 2025 but died in a Senate committee.

Issues: ✓ Criminal Justice

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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What changed between versions

As Introduced → Current version · 2 edits

MINOR

This bill restores voting rights to Jose Williams, a Mississippi resident who lost his right to vote due to a 1991 grand larceny conviction. The changes are primarily formatting and markup differences between the 'As Introduced' version and the 'As Passed the House' version, with no substantive policy changes to the bill's content.

TECHNICAL

Header formatting changed from standard Mississippi Legislature layout to a more compact format with different spacing and line breaks between the 'As Introduced' and 'As Passed the House' versions.

Some text characters were altered (e.g., special characters like 1 and 2 were added in the 'As Passed' version), likely due to different document markup systems used by the legislature.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

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

Mar 12, 2025

Committee

Referred To Judiciary B

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors