Mississippi House Bill 1562 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)
Status: Failed on February 22 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-02-22 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 27-65-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Reduce The Sales Tax Rate On Retail Sales Of Food For Human Consumption Not Purchased With Food Stamps But Which Would Be Exempt From Sales Tax If Purchased With Food Stamps; To Amend Section 27-65-75, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Distribution Of State Sales Tax Revenue Collected From Retail Sales Of Food For Human Consumption Not Purchased With Food Stamps But Which Would Be Exempt From Sales Tax If Purchased With Food Stamps; And For Related Purposes.

Sales tax; reduce rate on retail sales of certain food.

Rep. Jeffrey Hulum [D]	Rep. Orlando Paden [D]	Rep. John Hines [D]	Rep. Zakiya Summers [D]
Rep. Willie Bailey [D]	Rep. Earle Banks [D]	Rep. Edward Blackmon [D]	Rep. Bo Brown [D]
Rep. Bryant Clark [D]	Rep. Oscar Denton [D]	Rep. John Faulkner [D]	Rep. Stephanie Foster [D]
Rep. Karl Gibbs [D]	Rep. Jeffery Harness [D]	Rep. Robert Johnson [D]	Rep. Daryl Porter [D]
Rep. Robert Sanders [D]	Rep. Omeria Scott [D]	Rep. Rufus Straughter [D]	Rep. Cheikh Taylor [D]
Rep. Rickey Thompson [D]	Rep. Kenneth Walker [D]	Rep. Percy Watson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-22	House	Died In Committee
2023-02-09	House	Referred To Ways and Means

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
27	65	17	Amended Code	See Bill Text
27	65	75	Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2023/pdf/history/HB/HB1562.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1562IN.htm