Mississippi Senate Concurrent Resolution 528

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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]

A Concurrent Resolution Proposing An Amendment To Section 33 Of The Mississippi Constitution Of 1890, To Reserve The Right Of The People To Exercise The Legislative Power Of The State To Propose New Laws And Amend Or Repeal Existing Laws And To Approve Or Reject The Same In An Election Independent Of The Legislature; Proposing An Amendment To Section 56 Of The Mississippi Constitution Of 1890, To Conform; Proposing An Amendment To Section 72 Of The Mississippi Constitution Of 1890, To Preclude The Section From Applying To Initiative Measures Approved By The People; Proposing An Amendment To Section 273 Of The Mississippi Constitution Of 1890, To Remove The Ballot Initiative Powers Of The People From This Section, To Change The Requirement For A Majority Of Qualified Electors Voting For Or Against A Resolution To Sixty Percent, And To Require That Constitutional Initiatives Only Address One Subject Or Subject Matter; And Proposing An Addition To The Mississippi Constitution Of 1890, To Create Section 273a, To Establish And Outline The Citizen Ballot Initiative Process.

Constitution; amend to allow citizens to propose changes to existing law via initiative.

Sen. Robin Robinson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-05	Senate	Died In Committee
2024-02-19	Senate	Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/history/SC/SC0528.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SC/SC0528IN.htm