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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 38

General election ballot; revise the order of names printed on.

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 23-15-367, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE APPEARANCE OF NAMES ON GENERAL ELECTION BALLOTS SO THAT NOMINEES OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES WHOSE NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT LEAST TEN PERCENT OF THE VOTES CAST IN THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHALL BE LISTED FIRST ALPHABETICALLY BY THE CANDIDATE'S LAST NAME, AND THEN NOMINEES OF ANY OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES SHALL BE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY THE CANDIDATE'S LAST NAME QUALIFIED TO CONDUCT PRIMARY ELECTIONS, SHALL BE LISTED NEXT ALPHABETICALLY BY THE CANDIDATE'S LAST NAME, FOLLOWED BY ANY OTHER CANDIDATES LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY LAST NAME; TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-361, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE APPEARANCE OF NAMES ON MUNICIPAL GENERAL ELECTION BALLOTS SO THAT NOMINEES OF THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT POLITICAL PARTIES SHALL BE LISTED FIRST ALPHABETICALLY BY THE CANDIDATE'S LAST NAME, AND THEN NOMINEES OF ANY OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES, QUALIFIED TO CONDUCT PRIMARY ELECTIONS, SHALL BE LISTED NEXT ALPHABETICALLY BY THE CANDIDATE'S LAST NAME, FOLLOWED BY ANY OTHER CANDIDATES LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY LAST NAME; TO AMEND SECTIONS 23-15-511 AND 23-15-359, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM; 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

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 a committee substitute
  3. Feb 5Committee substitute adopted in the House
  4. Passed the House

In the Senate Feb 6 – Mar 4

  1. Feb 6Sent 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 Comm SubHouse of Representatives
  3. Feb 5Committee Substitute AdoptedHouse of Representatives
  4. Feb 5PassedHouse of Representatives
  5. Feb 6Transmitted To SenateHouse of Representatives
  6. Feb 14Referred To ElectionsSenate
  7. Mar 4Died In CommitteeSenate