l9n/ Mississippi

2023 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2504

Elections; prohibit incumbent candidates from appearing in publicly funded ads leading up to statewide general elections.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Elections Committee on January 31, 2023. The 2023 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO CREATE SECTION 23-15-299.1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROHIBIT ANY PERSON WHO IS A CANDIDATE FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE FROM APPEARING IN PUBLICLY FUNDED ADVERTISEMENTS DURING THE YEAR BEFORE OR THE YEAR OF THE STATEWIDE GENERAL ELECTION; TO PROVIDE THAT THOSE CANDIDATES WHO VIOLATE THE PROHIBITION SHALL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM HOLDING ANY PUBLIC OFFICE UNTIL THE NEXT STATEWIDE GENERAL ELECTION; TO AMEND SECTIONS 23-15-297, 23-15-299, 23-15-359 AND 23-15-976, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM; 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

Its course

January 16 to January 31, 2023, 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 SenateJan 16 to Jan 31 · stopped15 days

ElectionsJan 16 to Jan 31 · stopped15 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 16 – Jan 31

  1. Referred to the Senate committee on Elections
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published