Mississippi Senate Bill 2585

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 5 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 23-15-801, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Define Campaign Committee And Independent Expenditure-only Committee; To Amend Section 23-15-803, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Candidates And Political Committees To File A Statement Of Organization Prior To Receiving Contributions And Making Expenditures; To Amend Section 23-15-805, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require Candidate Committees To File Reports And Amend The Political Committee Filing Process; To Amend Section 23-15-807, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Require A Candidate Committee To File A Termination Report To Terminate Obligations To Submit Required Reports; To Amend Section 23-15-809, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Penalize Independent Expenditure-only Committees Who Receive Prohibited Contributions; To Amend Section 23-15-811, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Expand Penalties For Failing To File All Required Reports With The Secretary Of State's Office; To Amend Section 23-15-813, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Transfer Certain Assessment Responsibilities Of The Mississippi Ethics Commission To The Secretary Of State; To Bring Forward Sections 23-15-815, 23-15-817 And 23-15-819, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; To Amend Section 23-15-821, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Remove Contribution Exemption For Contributions Made Prior To January 1, 2018; To Create New Section 23-15-821.1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Create Corporation Contribution Limits; To Create New Section 23-15-823, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide Prohibitions On Campaign Finance Activities; To Create New Section 23-15-825, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide Additional Procedure For Auditing Campaign Finance Accounts; To Amend Section 23-15-897, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Create A Fine For Failure To Comply With The Campaign Materials Provisions Of This Section; To Create New Section 97-13-47, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Create Criminal Penalties For The Wrongful Dissemination Of Deepfakes; And For Related Purposes.

Campaign finance; reform.

Sen. Jeff Tate [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-05	Senate	Died In Committee
2024-02-19	Senate	Referred To Elections

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	15	801	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	803	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	805	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	807	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	809	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	811	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	813	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	815	New Code	See Bill Text
23	15	817	New Code	See Bill Text
23	15	819	New Code	See Bill Text
23	15	821	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	897	Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/history/SB/SB2585.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2585IN.htm