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2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2533

School bonds; change threshold for issuance from 3/5 vote of qualified electors to majority vote.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Finance 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 SECTIONS 37-59-17 AND 37-59-105, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CHANGE THE VOTE THRESHOLD FOR THE ISSUANCE OF SCHOOL BONDS FROM THREE-FIFTHS OF THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS VOTING TO A MAJORITY THEREOF; 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 Senate

3 co-sponsors

Scott DeLano, Bart Williams, Jeremy England

Its course

January 20 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 SenateJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days

EducationJan 20 to Jan 3111 days

FinanceJan 31 to Feb 4 · stopped4 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 Senate Jan 20 – Feb 4

  1. Jan 20Referred to the Senate committees on Education and on Finance
  2. Jan 31Reported from ED to FI in the Senate: title sufficient, do pass
  3. Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 3 actions, as published
  1. Jan 20Referred To Education;FinanceSenate
  2. Jan 31DR - TSDP: ED To FISenate
  3. Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate