l9n/ Mississippi

2013 Regular Session

House Bill 260

Election; require direct referendum on question of imposing a local tax by a local and private law.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Ways and Means Committee on February 5, 2013. The 2013 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT IF A LOCAL AND PRIVATE BILL PROPOSES TO IMPOSE, INCREASE OR EXTEND A TAX OF ANY KIND WITHIN A SPECIFIC GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY, LOCALITY OR AREA, THEN A DIRECT REFERENDUM SHALL BE HELD ON THE QUESTION OF IMPOSING, INCREASING OR EXTENDING THE TAX; TO PROVIDE THAT THE REFERENDUM SHALL BE HELD AT THE SAME TIME AS THE NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED ELECTION IN THE AREA; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

Its course

January 14 to February 5, 2013, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 14 to Feb 5 · stopped22 days

Ways and MeansJan 14 to Feb 5 · stopped22 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 14 – Feb 5

  1. Referred to the House committee on Ways and Means
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published