l9n/ Mississippi

2020 Regular Session

House Bill 640

Sexual Harassment Settlements; require counties, municipalities and state agencies to post on website.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency Committee on March 3, 2020. The 2020 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO REQUIRE MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES AND STATE AGENCIES TO LIST ANY EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC FUNDS USED TO PAY SETTLEMENTS FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT; TO AMEND SECTION 27-104-155, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING PROVISION; 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

1 co-sponsor

Kent McCarty

Its course

February 6 to March 3, 2020, 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 RepresentativesFeb 6 to Mar 3 · stopped26 days

Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyFeb 6 to Mar 3 · stopped26 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 Feb 6 – Mar 3

  1. Referred to the House committee on Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published