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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]
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The Senate, along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson. The Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi serves as President of the Senate. The Senate is composed of 52 senators representing an equal number of constituent districts, with 56,947 people per district (2020 census).
The Mississippi Legislature is a citizen legislature; most legislators have full-time occupations unrelated to their official roles. [4] Members receive a base salary of $23,000 per year. As of April 2022, most legislators garnered a total compensation of $40,000 to $50,000 per year from salary, per diem payments, and other reimbursements and ...
Mississippi’s population is about 59% white and 38% Black, according to the Census Bureau. In the redistricting plan adopted in 2022, 15 of the 52 Senate districts and 42 of the 122 House ...
Rep. Becky Currie, R-Brookhaven, files a number of bills in House chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Lawmakers have dropped more than 2,000 bills by the Tuesday ...
Article 4, Section 36 of the Mississippi Constitution specifies that the state legislature must meet for 125 days every four years and 90 days in other years. The Mississippi House of Representatives has the authority to determine rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and expel a member with a two-thirds vote of its membership. [1]
Mississippi’s population is about 59% white and 38% Black, according to the Census Bureau. In the redistricting plan adopted in 2022, 15 of the 52 Senate districts and 42 of the 122 House ...