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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 184

Public purchasing; increase threshold for bidding and revise provisions related to reverse auctions.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency 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 31-7-13, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE PUBLIC PURCHASING LAW TO PROVIDE THAT PURCHASES WHICH DO NOT INVOLVE AN EXPENDITURE OF MORE THAN $10,000.00 MAY BE MADE WITHOUT ADVERTISING OR OTHERWISE REQUESTING COMPETITIVE BIDS; TO REVISE THE REVERSE AUCTION METHOD FOR RECEIVING BIDS TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN AGENCIES AND GOVERNING AUTHORITIES; TO PROVIDE THAT IF AN AGENCY DETERMINES THAT A REVERSE AUCTION IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE AGENCY, THEN THAT DETERMINATION MUST BE APPROVED BY THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT REVIEW BOARD; TO PROVIDE THAT IF A GOVERNING AUTHORITY DETERMINES THAT A REVERSE AUCTION IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE GOVERNING AUTHORITY, THEN THAT DETERMINATION MUST BE APPROVED BY THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE GOVERNING AUTHORITY; TO PROVIDE THAT THE AGENCY AND GOVERNING AUTHORITY MUST SUBMIT AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY A REVERSE AUCTION IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE AGENCY OR GOVERNING AUTHORITY; TO AMEND SECTIONS 31-3-1, 31-5-37 AND 31-5-51, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM; TO AMEND SECTION 31-7-103, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE COMPETITIVE PURCHASING THRESHOLD FOR CERTAIN COUNTY PURCHASES; TO BRING FORWARD SECTION 31-7-119, 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 action6 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 10 to Feb 1031 days

Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyJan 10 to Jan 3020 days

In the SenateFeb 10 to Mar 4 · stopped22 days

Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyFeb 17 to Mar 4 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

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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 10

  1. Jan 10Referred to the House committee on Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
  2. Jan 30Reported from committee in the House: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Feb 10Passed the House

In the Senate Feb 11 – Mar 4

  1. Feb 11Sent to the Senate
  2. Feb 17Referred to the Senate committee on Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
  3. Mar 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 6 actions, as published
  1. Jan 10Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyHouse of Representatives
  2. Jan 30Title Suff Do PassHouse of Representatives
  3. Feb 10PassedHouse of Representatives
  4. Feb 11Transmitted To SenateHouse of Representatives
  5. Feb 17Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencySenate
  6. Mar 4Died In CommitteeSenate