l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 258

Public purchasing; increase threshold for bidding to $15,000.00.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency Committee on February 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 PROVIDE THAT PURCHASES WHICH DO NOT INVOLVE AN EXPENDITURE OF MORE THAN FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, EXCLUSIVE OF FREIGHT OR SHIPPING CHARGES, MAY BE MADE WITHOUT ADVERTISING OR OTHERWISE REQUESTING COMPETITIVE BIDS; TO AMEND SECTIONS 31-3-1, 31-5-37 AND 31-5-51, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING SECTION; 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 February 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 action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 10 to Feb 4 · stopped25 days

Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyJan 10 to Feb 4 · stopped25 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 10 – Feb 4

  1. Referred to the House committee on Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published