Mississippi Senate Bill 2565 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on April 4 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-04-04 - Died In Conference
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

An Act To Create The Mississippi Tourism Advisory Board To Advise The Mississippi Development Authority On Strategies For Advertising And Marketing Tourism In This State; To Provide For The Membership Of The Board; To Create A Special Fund In The State Treasury To Be Designated The Tourism Advertising And Marketing Fund; To Provide That Money In The Fund Shall Be Used To Defray Costs Incurred By The Mississippi Development Authority In Advertising And Marketing Mississippi As A Tourism Destination; To Establish A Five-year Pilot Program To Test A New Funding Mechanism For The State's Travel And Tourism Advertising And Marketing Beginning In Fiscal Year 2015; To Provide That Starting In Fiscal Year 2014 And Ending In Fiscal Year 2018 The Commissioner Of Revenue Shall Calculate The Growth In Fiscal Year Sales Tax Revenue From Certain Defined Categories That Are Related To Tourism And Certify That Amount To The Executive Director Of The Department Of Finance And Administration; To Provide That If The Amount So Certified Is Greater Than Zero, The Executive Director Shall Transfer That Amount To The Tourism Advertising And Marketing Fund Created By This Act; To Provide That The Amount So Transferred Shall Not Exceed $15,000,000.00 In Any Fiscal Year Adjusted For Inflation; To Provide That The Executive Director Of The Mississippi Development Authority, In Consultation With The Executive Director Of The Department Of Finance And Administration And The Commissioner Of Revenue, Shall Review The Pilot Program And Make Recommendations To The Governor And The Legislature On Whether To Make The Funding Mechanism Permanent And, If So, Whether Any Changes Should Be Made To It; To Amend Section 57-1-59, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Mississippi Development Authority's General Powers And Duties With Respect To Tourism And To Require The Mississippi Development Authority To Perform An Annual Return-on-investment Study Analyzing The Department's Success Promoting Mississippi Tourism And File A Report Containing The Findings Of The Study With The Governor, The Secretary Of The Senate And The Clerk Of The House Of Representatives; And For Related Purposes.

Tourism; create the MS Tourism Advisory Board and the Tourism Advertising and Marketing Fund; create a pilot program to fund.

Sen. Melanie Sojourner [R]	Sen. Lydia Chassaniol [R]	Sen. Albert Butler [D]	Sen. Kelvin Butler [D]
Sen. Phillip Gandy [R]	Sen. John Horhn [D]	Sen. Robert Jackson [D]	Sen. David Jordan [D]
Sen. Michael Watson [R]

2013-03-12 - House - House Passed As Amended (Y: 119 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-15 - Senate - Senate Passed As Amended (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 6 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-12 - Senate - Senate Passed (Y: 51 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-04-04	Senate	Died In Conference
2013-04-02	House	Recommitted For Further Conf
2013-04-02	Senate	Recommitted For Further Conf
2013-04-01	House	Conference Report Filed
2013-04-01	Senate	Conference Report Filed
2013-03-29	House	Conferees Named Martinson,Holland,DeLano
2013-03-29	Senate	Conferees Named Chassaniol,Sojourner,Clarke
2013-03-19	Senate	Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
2013-03-13	House	Returned For Concurrence
2013-03-12	House	Passed As Amended
2013-03-12	House	Amended
2013-03-05	House	Read the Third Time
2013-03-05	House	Title Suff Do Pass As Amended
2013-03-05	House	DR - TSDPAA: AP To TO
2013-02-27	House	DR - TSDPAA: TO To AP
2013-02-21	House	Referred To Tourism;Appropriations
2013-02-19	Senate	Transmitted To House
2013-02-15	Senate	Passed As Amended
2013-02-15	Senate	Amended
2013-02-15	Senate	Reconsidered
2013-02-12	Senate	Motion to Reconsider Entered
2013-02-12	Senate	Passed
2013-02-05	Senate	Title Suff Do Pass
2013-01-28	Senate	DR - TSDP: TO To AP
2013-01-21	Senate	Referred To Tourism;Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2013/pdf/history/SB/SB2565.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2013/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2565IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2013/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2565PS.htm
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2013/pdf/votes/senate/0360030.pdf
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2013/pdf/votes/senate/0390003.pdf
Roll Call	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2013/pdf/votes/house/0640013.pdf