Mississippi Holds Primaries For 4 U.S. House Seats, 1 Senate Seat
Mississippians are voting today in party primaries for four seats in the U.S. House and one in the U.S. Senate.
Mississippians are voting today in party primaries for four seats in the U.S. House and one in the U.S. Senate.
Mississippi voters will select Republican and Democratic nominees for U.S. Senate in the primaries on Tuesday, March 12. These are the candidates.
Mississippi Republicans introduced bills in January to make “abortion trafficking,” advertising abortion information and mail-in abortion pills criminal offenses.
Mississippi teachers would be legally required to out transgender students to their families under House Bill 176, which seven Republicans introduced.
Mississippians who collect or transmit a mailed absentee ballot on behalf of someone else could be charged with a misdemeanor offense and face up to one year in a county jail or a fine of up to $3,000 after Gov. Tate Reeves signed Senate Bill 2358 into law on Wednesday.
The “Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures (REAP) Act,” would prohibit standard treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking drugs by barring public funds from going to “any entity, organization or individual that provides gender transition procedures to a person under eighteen years of age.”
House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, has called for a hold on the spending of federal American Rescue Plan money until the Mississippi Legislature passes a bill abolishing the income tax, a shot across the bow of the Senate and its more modest reform plan only two weeks before a key deadline for many spending bills.
Medical marijuana came a step closer to becoming a reality in Mississippi this afternoon as lawmakers in the Mississippi House of Representatives voted to approve a bill that would legalize it for some patients in the Magnolia State.
Incarcerated pregnant women and mothers of minor children will gain new protections under Mississippi law after the state senators, like their House colleagues, unanimously passed House Bill 196, “The Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act,” on Thursday.
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