Mississippi House Bill 474 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: Failed on January 31 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 25-41-5, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Standing, Interim And Special Committees And Subcommittees Of The Mississippi Legislature To Make Audio Recordings Of All Of Their Official Meetings; To Require The Audio Recordings To Be Preserved By The Legislature For Three Years And Be Made Available To The Public; To Amend Section 25-41-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Preceding Section; To Amend Section 25-41-11, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require The Minutes Of Legislative Committee Meetings To Include The Audio Recording Of That Meeting; To Amend Section 25-61-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Expand The Definition Of "public Records" To Include The Audio Recordings Required To Be Made By Standing, Interim And Special Committees And Subcommittees Of The Mississippi Legislature; To Amend Section 25-61-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Legislature Shall Be Subject To The Audio Recording Required In This Act; To Bring Forward Section 25-41-7, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.

Audio recordings; require for standing, interim, special committees and subcommittees of the Mississippi Legislature.

Rep. Jay Hughes [D]

Rep. Bryant Clark [D]

Rep. Kathy Sykes [D]

Rep. Deborah Butler Dixon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-31	House	Died In Committee
2017-01-09	House	Referred To Rules;Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/history/HB/HB0474.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0400-0499/HB0474IN.htm