l9n/ Mississippi

2014 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2237

Cultural product districts; authorize creation of and exempt sales of original, one-of-a-kind works of art in from sales taxation.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Finance Committee on February 4, 2014. The 2014 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS OF COUNTIES AND GOVERNING AUTHORITIES OF MUNICIPALITIES TO DESIGNATE AND ESTABLISH PURSUANT TO CRITERIA ESTABLISHED BY THE MISSISSIPPI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, CULTURAL PRODUCT DISTRICTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF REVITALIZING A COMMUNITY BY CREATING HUB FOR CULTURAL ACTIVITY, INCLUDING AFFORDABLE ARTIST HOUSING AND WORK SPACE; TO PROVIDE THAT THE SALE OF ORIGINAL, ONE-OF-A-KIND WORKS OF ART FROM AN ESTABLISHED LOCATION WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF A CULTURAL PRODUCT DISTRICT SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM SALES TAXATION; TO AMEND SECTION 27-65-111, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, IN CONFORMITY THERETO; 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 Senate

1 co-sponsor

Briggs Hopson

Its course

January 10 to February 4, 2014, 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 action3 actions on 3 days

In the SenateJan 10 to Feb 4 · stopped25 days

TourismJan 10 to Jan 2717 days

FinanceJan 27 to Feb 4 · stopped8 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 Senate Jan 10 – Feb 4

  1. Referred to the Senate committees on Tourism and on Finance
  2. Reported as a committee substitute from TO to FI in the Senate: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Died in committee in the Senate
All 3 actions, as published