l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 333

Overpayment of unemployment benefits; prohibit interest accrual or fees assessed by MDES when no fault overpayment.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Workforce Development 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 71-5-19, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT WHEN AN OVERPAYMENT OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS OCCURS THROUGH NO FAULT OF THE PERSON RECEIVING THE OVERPAYMENT, THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY SHALL NOT CHARGE INTEREST ON THE UNPAID BALANCE OF THE OVERPAYMENT AND SHALL WAIVE ANY PROCESSING FEES THAT RESULT FROM THE OVERPAYMENT OF BENEFITS; TO BRING FORWARD SECTIONS 71-5-363, 71-5-367 AND 71-5-543, 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 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

Workforce DevelopmentJan 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 committees on Workforce Development and on Appropriations A
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published