***Adopted***

AMENDMENT No. 1 PROPOSED TO

                             Senate Bill NO. 2446

                             By Representative(s) Committee

     Amend by striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

 

     SECTION 1.  (1)  There is hereby created the Commission on Police Pursuit Standards and Procedures, which shall consist of seventeen (17) members.

     (2)  The Governor shall appoint five (5) members of the commission from the following specified categories:

          (a)  Two (2) members, each to be a chief of police of a municipality in this state, with one (1) of such municipalities having a population of less than one thousand two hundred (1,200) according to the latest federal decennial census.

          (b)  One (1) member shall be a sheriff in this state.

          (c)  One (1) member shall be a district attorney in this state.

          (d)  One (1) member shall be a representative of higher education.

     (3)  The remaining twelve (12) members of the commission shall be the following:

          (a)  The Attorney General.

          (b)  The Director of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol.

          (c)  The President of the Mississippi Municipal Association or his designee.

          (d)  The President of the Mississippi Association of Supervisors or his designee.

          (e)  The President of the Mississippi Constable Association or his designee and such member shall be a certified law enforcement officer.

          (f)  The President of the Mississippi Police Benevolent Association or his designee.

          (g)  The President of the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Association or his designee.

          (h)  The President of the Central State Troopers Coalition or his designee.

          (i)  A nonsupervisory, rank and file, law enforcement officer appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.

          (j)  A nonsupervisory, rank and file, law enforcement officer appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

          (k)  The President of the Mississippi Campus Law Enforcement Officers Association or his designee.

          (l)  The President of the Fraternal Order of Police or his designee.

     (4)  Members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to receive reimbursement for any actual and reasonable expenses incurred as a necessary incident to such service, including mileage, as provided in Section 25-3-41.

     (5)  There shall be a chairman and a vice chairman of the commission, elected by and from the membership of the commission.  The board shall meet monthly until the presentation of its final recommendations to the Legislature.

     (6)  The commission shall study and make recommendations to the Legislature regarding the pursuit of fleeing criminal offenders by law enforcement officers.  Such recommendations shall address uniform methods and procedures of pursuit for the state which insure the safety of the public and the apprehension of criminal offenders.

     (7)  The commission shall report its recommendations to the Legislature not later than January 1, 2004.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2003, and shall stand repealed on July 1, 2004.

     Further, amend by striking the title in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

 

     AN ACT TO CREATE THE COMMISSION ON POLICE PURSUIT STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES; TO PROVIDE FOR THE MEMBERSHIP AND DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.