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2023 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2637

Initiative measure; create procedures for qualified elector to propose amendment to the Mississippi Code of 1972.

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

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE PROCEDURES BY WHICH QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF THIS STATE MAY INITIATE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO BE APPROVED BY THE ELECTORATE AT THE NEXT STATEWIDE GENERAL ELECTION; TO PROVIDE FOR THE MANNER AND TIME FOR FILING INITIATIVE PETITIONS WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE; TO PRESCRIBE THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WITH REGARD TO RECEIVING, FILING AND CERTIFYING INITIATIVE MEASURES AND PETITIONS; TO PRESCRIBE THE FORM OF INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND THE FORMS OF SUCH MEASURES FOR THE BALLOTS; TO AUTHORIZE APPEALS FROM ADVERSE FINDINGS OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE REGARDING INITIATIVE MEASURES AND PETITIONS; TO PROVIDE CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN CONDUCT PRESCRIBED AS UNLAWFUL UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT; 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

9 co-sponsors

Robert L. Jackson, Derrick T. Simmons, Rod Hickman, Hillman Terome Frazier, Sollie B. Norwood, Angela Turner-Ford, David Jordan, Kelvin Butler, Joseph Thomas

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

Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyJan 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. Jan 16Referred to the Senate committee on Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
  2. Jan 31Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 16Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencySenate
  2. Jan 31Died In CommitteeSenate