2024 Regular Session

House Bill 196

Absentee ballots; authorize executive committees to process for primary elections.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Apportionment and Elections Committee on March 5, 2024. The 2024 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-523, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT FOR GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS, ALL BALLOTS THAT HAVE BEEN REJECTED BY THE OMR EQUIPMENT AND THAT ARE DAMAGED OR DEFECTIVE, BLANK OR OVERVOTED WILL BE REVIEWED BY THE RESOLUTION BOARD, BUT FOR PRIMARY ELECTIONS, THOSE BALLOTS WILL BE REVIEWED BY THE COUNTY OR MUNICIPAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AS APPLICABLE; TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-639, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT THE EXAMINATION AND COUNTING OF ALL ABSENTEE BALLOTS SHALL BE CONDUCTED BY THE RESOLUTION BOARD IN GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS AND SHALL BE CONDUCTED BY THE COUNTY OR MUNICIPAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AS APPROPRIATE, IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS; TO BRING FORWARD SECTIONS 23-15-573 AND 23-15-597, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, FOR THE PURPOSE OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Its course

January 17 to March 5, 2024, 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 17 to Mar 5 · stopped48 days

Apportionment and ElectionsJan 17 to Mar 5 · stopped48 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 17 – Mar 5

Jan 17Referred to the House committee on Apportionment and Elections
Mar 5Died in committee in the House

All 2 actions, as published

Jan 17Referred To Apportionment and ElectionsHouse of Representatives
Mar 5Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives