l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 851

Troy Floyd Act; create and establish grant program to assist certain municipalities with acquiring lifesaving emergency equipment for police departments.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Appropriations A Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO CREATE THE TROY FLOYD ACT; TO PROVIDE THAT THE MISSISSIPPI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY SHALL ESTABLISH A PROGRAM TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES TO ASSIST IN PAYING COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ACQUIRING LIFE SAVING EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT FOR THEIR POLICE DEPARTMENTS; TO PROVIDE AN APPLICATION PROCESS FOR THE GRANT PROGRAM; TO CREATE THE "SMALL MUNICIPALITIES POLICE DEPARTMENTS LIFE SAVING EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT FUND" AS A SPECIAL FUND IN THE STATE TREASURY; TO PROVIDE THAT MONIES IN THE FUND SHALL BE DISBURSED, UPON APPROPRIATION BY THE LEGISLATURE, BY THE MISSISSIPPI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, TO PROVIDE GRANTS AUTHORIZED IN THIS ACT; 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

4 co-sponsors

Becky Currie, Vince Mangold, Sam C. Mims, V, Angela Cockerham

Its course

January 16 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 action3 actions on 3 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 16 to Feb 4 · stopped19 days

MunicipalitiesJan 16 to Jan 2812 days

Appropriations AJan 28 to Feb 4 · stopped7 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 16 – Feb 4

  1. Referred to the House committees on Municipalities and on Appropriations A
  2. Reported from MU to AP in the House: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Died in committee in the House
All 3 actions, as published