Mississippi Senate Bill 2289 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-01-30 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Create Section 5-8-25, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define Certain Terms And To Prohibit State Agencies And Political Subdivisions From Lobbying The Legislature Or Expending Public Funds To Pay Contract Lobbyists; To Amend Section 5-8-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity; To Prohibit State Agencies And Political Subdivisions From Using Radio And Television Advertising To Promote Agency Programs, Except In Certain Instances; To Prohibit Governmental Entity Sponsorship, In Whole Or In Part, Of Certain Private Conventions And Meetings; To Amend Sections 17-3-1 And 17-3-3, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform; And For Related Purposes.

Governmental entities; prohibit public funding of advertisements, lobbying activities and certain convention or other meetings.

Sen. Angela Burks Hill [R]

Sen. Joseph Seymour [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-30	Senate	Died In Committee
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf/history/SB/SB2289.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2289IN.htm