HB1653: Revises Projects Funded by State Improvement Funds
This bill changes the specific purposes for which money is spent from several state improvement funds, including projects in cities, counties, and veteran groups.
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This bill changes the specific purposes for which money is spent from several state improvement funds, including projects in cities, counties, and veteran groups.
This bill creates a special process for patients with serious, unlisted illnesses to ask permission through their doctor to use medical cannabis.
This bill changes Mississippi's medical cannabis law by removing mandatory follow-up visits for patients and extending the validity of ID cards for caregivers.
This law creates a new loan program to fund eligible projects in the Gulf Coast region using money that is repaid and reused.
This bill would let the city leaders of Philadelphia, Mississippi give up to $10,000 from their general fund to a local nonprofit that runs transportation services.
This bill would allow DeSoto County to buy radar equipment so the sheriff can enforce speed limits near schools on roads outside city limits, with any money from tickets going to school safety officers.
This bill would allow the Town of Meadville to charge a 3% tax on short-term hotel stays if voters approve it, with money used only for tourism and parks.
This bill proposed to allow the City of Natchez and Adams County to contribute specific amounts each year to a nonprofit group called Natchez, Inc. for economic development.
This bill proposed to extend the expiration date of a tourism tax on hotels and motels in the City of Laurel, Mississippi from July 2026 to July 2036.
This bill provides money from state general and special funds to pay for the expenses of the Office of the Attorney General during fiscal year 2027.
This bill proposes extending an existing tax on hotels and restaurants in Jackson, Mississippi, adding new taxes to fund the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and requiring a public vote before collecting them.
This bill proposes to extend the expiration date of a local restaurant tax in Clinton from July 2026 to July 2030.
This bill proposed to extend the expiration date of a special sales tax on restaurant meals in Moss Point, Mississippi from July 2026 to July 2030.
This bill authorizes the City of Greenwood to create a program requiring owners of vacant or abandoned buildings that contribute to blight to register their properties and follow safety rules.
This bill authorizes the City of Greenwood to create a program requiring owners of vacant or abandoned buildings that contribute to blight and safety hazards to register their properties.
This bill would have allowed DeSoto County to buy radar equipment for the sheriff's department and required that money from speeding tickets be used to pay for school resource officers.
This bill would allow Jackson County officials to give up to $5,000 each year from county money to a local arts group called F.A.C.E. until July 1, 2030.
City of Hattiesburg; extend repealer on tourism commission and hotel/motel tax.
Suffrage; restore to Charity Payne-Williams of Tunica County.
Suffrage; restore to Kynoa Trotter of Pike County.
Suffrage; restore to April Pace-Brooks of Coahoma County.
Suffrage; restore to Wykesia Geater of Jackson County.
Suffrage; restore to Cleveland Stallworth of Jackson County.
Suffrage; restore to Jerome Wyatt of Jones County.
Suffrage; restore to Omar Travis of Hinds County.
Suffrage; restore to Tameral Hearn Johnson of DeSoto County.
Suffrage; restore to Omar Eugene Magee of Covington County.
Suffrage; restore to Christopher Preston of Covington County.
Suffrage; restore to Larry Mangum of Hinds County.
Suffrage; restore to Kenneth Almons of Hinds County.
Suffrage; restore to Jared Scott Drennan of Covington County.
Lee County; authorize board of supervisors to approve and govern sheriff department's use of radar in school zones in county.
Suffrage; restore to Robert L.
Suffrage; restore to Lamar Sampson of Humphreys County.
Suffrage; restore to Charles Howery of Yazoo County.
Suffrage; restore to Janice Johnson-Ball of Harrison County.
Suffrage; restore to Peter Fulton of Oktibbeha County.
Suffrage; restore to Tramaine Wagner of Walthall County.
Suffrage; restore to Leporion Versell of Hinds County.
This bill would restore the right to vote specifically for one man named Tony Qualls from Humphreys County, Mississippi.
This bill proposes to extend the expiration date of a law that allows the City of Richland to collect a 3% tax on hotel and motel room rentals.
City of Richland; extend repealer on bar and restaurant tourism tax.
This bill would allow the City of Leland to create a tax of up to 2% on sales at bars, restaurants, and hotel room rentals if voters approve it by a specific margin.
This bill would restore the right to vote for one specific man in Mississippi who lost it due to past criminal convictions.
This bill would restore the right to vote for one specific person named Robert Henley in Mississippi.
This bill would restore the right to vote for one specific person named Mallory Touchstone in Pike County, Mississippi.
This bill proposes to restore the right to vote for one specific person named Kenya James who lives in Webster County, Mississippi.
This bill would restore the right to vote for one specific person named Isaac Thorne in Mississippi.
This bill proposes to restore the right to vote for one specific person, Sandra L. Warner of Hinds County, Mississippi.
This bill proposes restoring the right to vote for a specific person named Karen Smith who lives in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
This bill would restore the right to vote for one specific person named in Harrison County, Mississippi.
This bill would have allowed Marshall County officials to give up to $7,500 per year to a local arts group.
This bill would restore the right to vote for one specific person named Robert Gill of Greene County, Mississippi.
This bill would restore the right to vote for Cassidy Alexander of Lamar County, Mississippi.
This bill would restore the right to vote for one specific person named Sylvester Montgomery in Copiah County, Mississippi.
This bill proposes to restore the right to vote for one specific person named Herman Howard who lives in Hinds County, Mississippi.
This bill proposes to restore the right to vote for one specific person named Montana Wimberly from Lincoln County, Mississippi.
Suffrage; restore to Joe Nelson London of Lee County.
This bill restores the right to vote for Hillary Ivy of Neshoba County, Mississippi.
This bill asks the Mississippi Legislature to give back the right to vote to Brandon Shelton of Lee County.