Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2576
Mississippi Public Records Act; allow public bodies to process requests from matters of litigation as privileged.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 25-61-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO ALLOW PUBLIC BODIES TO PROCESS REQUESTS MADE AS A RESULT OF A CRIMINAL OR CIVIL PROCEEDING, EMPLOYEE APPEALS BOARD OR ARBITRATION FOR WHICH THE PUBLIC BODY IS A PARTY, AS PRIVILEGED AND SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE DISCOVERY RULES, WHEN REQUESTED BY AN OPPOSING PARTY OR AN AGENT THEREOF; TO REQUIRE THAT REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION BY AN OPPOSING PARTY OR THEIR AGENT BE MADE TO THE ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE PUBLIC BODY IN THE CRIMINAL OR CIVIL PROCEEDING, EMPLOYEE APPEALS BOARD OR ARBITRATION; 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
Sponsor
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 action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days
Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencyJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 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
- Jan 20Referred to the Senate committee on Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
- Feb 4Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
- Jan 20Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, TransparencySenate
- Feb 4Died In CommitteeSenate