l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2722

TANF; require set aside for nonprofits providing marriage counseling and support for military or first responder families.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO ANNUALLY SET ASIDE A MINIMUM OF $10,000,000.00 RECEIVED BY THE STATE UNDER THE TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES (TANF) BLOCK GRANT TO FUND GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SPECIFICALLY WORKING WITH MILITARY OR FIRST RESPONDER FAMILIES TO PROVIDE MARRIAGE COUNSELING, PREPARATION AND SUPPORT; TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT TO IMPLEMENT POLICIES TO AWARD SUCH GRANTS AND TO IMPLEMENT THOSE POLICIES BY RULES PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 43-17-7 AND 25-43-101; TO DEFINE TERMS; TO STATE CERTAIN LEGISLATIVE INTENT; 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

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

Public Health and WelfareJan 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

  1. Referred to the Senate committees on Public Health and Welfare and on Appropriations
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published