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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 163

Absentee ballot; provide process to cure if signatures on application and envelope do not correspond.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Elections Committee on March 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-639, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE A PROCESS FOR ABSENTEE VOTERS TO CURE THEIR ABSENTEE BALLOT IF THE SIGNATURE ON THE APPLICATION DOES NOT MEET THE SIGNATURE ON THE ENVELOPE; TO BRING FORWARD SECTION 23-15-641, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, FOR THE PURPOSE OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENT; 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

Its course

January 10 to March 4, 2025, 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 action7 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 10 to Feb 526 days

Apportionment and ElectionsJan 10 to Jan 2313 days

In the SenateFeb 5 to Mar 4 · stopped27 days

ElectionsFeb 14 to Mar 4 · stopped18 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 5

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 10 – Feb 5

  1. Jan 10Referred to the House committee on Apportionment and Elections
  2. Jan 23Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass as amended
  3. Feb 5Amended in the House
  4. Passed the House as amended

In the Senate Feb 7 – Mar 4

  1. Feb 7Sent to the Senate
  2. Feb 14Referred to the Senate committee on Elections
  3. Mar 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 7 actions, as published
  1. Jan 10Referred To Apportionment and ElectionsHouse of Representatives
  2. Jan 23Title Suff Do Pass As AmendedHouse of Representatives
  3. Feb 5AmendedHouse of Representatives
  4. Feb 5Passed As AmendedHouse of Representatives
  5. Feb 7Transmitted To SenateHouse of Representatives
  6. Feb 14Referred To ElectionsSenate
  7. Mar 4Died In CommitteeSenate