Sign Language Now Fulfills Mississippi’s High School Foreign Language Requirements: #MSLeg Roundup
High school students will now be able to fulfill foreign language requirements with sign language classes under a new law.
High school students will now be able to fulfill foreign language requirements with sign language classes under a new law.
Mississippi legislators are unlikely to restore a ballot initiative process this year after a Senate proposal died on Monday.
Jackson’s water system could soon be under the control of a state-appointed body after the Mississippi Senate passed a bill to transfer authority.
Mississippi could limit last-minute polling-place changes, ban AI images intended to cause harm and more.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba called renewed efforts for a state takeover of Jackson’s water system an “effort to seize control of a Black city.”
Lawmakers are renewing efforts to create a regional utility authority to take over the Jackson water system after a similar bill failed last year.
Mississippi lawmakers advanced bills to raise shoplifting fines, create an alert system for people with disabilities and reform prior authorizations.
Mississippians would not have the right to change the state’s abortion laws or right-to-work laws in a proposed effort to restore ballot initiatives.
Efforts for Mississippi to revive the ballot initiative system in Mississippi will now fall to Sen. David Parker, a new Senate committee chairman.
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