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As of 2024, there are 42-Black majority districts in the 122-member House (34.4%) and 15 Black majority districts in the 52-member Senate (28.8%). Legislative redistricting occurs every 10 years ...
July 3, 2024 at 11:29 AM. ... The Mississippi law (House Bill 1126, also known as the Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act) says social media platforms must verify people's ages before ...
On May 13, 2024, Governor Tate Reeves signed a law that requires people to use public school bathrooms according to their own sex as "determined solely by a birth." The law took effect immediately. The Mississippi Legislature had passed the bill earlier that month [67] [68] [69]
The post Federal appeals court delays new state-run court in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital appeared first on TheGrio. ... 2024 at 6:56 AM. ... Under a law signed by Republican Gov. Tate ...
The 2020–2024 Mississippi Legislature was composed of the Mississippi State Senate and the Mississippi House of Representatives. [1] General elections for the Senate and the House were held on November 5, 2019. [2] [3] The first session was held from January 7, 2020 to October 10, 2020. [1]
The 2024–2028 Mississippi Legislature first met in January 2024. ... The 2023 elections were marked by new leadership, as the past speaker Phillip Gunn retired, ...
Reeves and legislators who support the new court say it is part of an effort to control crime in Jackson — a city that has had more than 100 homicides for each of the past three years, in a ...
In 2020, a law was enacted in Mississippi banning abortions based on the sex, race, or genetic abnormality of the fetus. [47] A law outlawing abortion in Mississippi took effect on July 7, 2022, after Mississippi State Attorney General Lynn Fitch on June 27 of that year certified the June 24, 2022, Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v.