Mississippi 2025 Regular Session

Mississippi House Bill HB1598

Introduced

1/20/25

Refer

1/20/25

Failed

2/4/25

Rape; remove element of force.

No companion bills found.

Statutory rape and sexual assault; revise penalties.

Rape trials; revise evidentiary procedures for spousal rape.

Statutory rape; revise elements when both are dating and in secondary school.

Rape; revise elements for the crime of and remove spousal exception.

Statutory rape; create an exception when both teenagers are dating each other.

Surgical castration; authorize as an additional penalty for statutory rape.

Capital rape; increase penalty for rape of child under 12 to death penalty or life imprisonment.

Sexual activity with certain minors; criminalize.