Suffrage; restore to Omar Travis of Hinds County.
HB 1981 is a specific restoration bill that reinstates voting rights for Omar Travis of Hinds County, Mississippi, who lost suffrage eligibility due to past felony convictions (burglary, receiving stolen property). The bill states Travis completed all sentences and probation by 2021, has been law-abiding since, and the legislature confirms his rehabilitation. As a personal restoration measure (not a general policy change), it directly affects only Travis, restoring his right to vote in Mississippi elections. The bill passed the House in March 2025 but died in a Senate committee.
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 format to an official House-passed version, with minor text encoding issues (garbled characters) appearing in the current version. The substantive policy content regarding restoring voting rights to Omar Travis remains unchanged.
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Header and formatting changed from 'As Introduced' to 'As Passed the House' with updated session information and page numbering.
Minor text encoding issues introduced in the current version, causing some characters to display as garbled symbols (e.g., ����) in Section 1 and 2.
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
2
Committee
3
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
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Grace Butler-Washington
DDemocratic
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