Bill Text: MS HB1401 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Municipal temporary executive committee; shall give 30 days notice of meeting to select committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-02-02 - Died In Committee [HB1401 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2010-HB1401-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2010 Regular Session
To: Municipalities
By: Representatives Reynolds, Banks, Buck (5th), Buck (72nd), Calhoun, Clarke, Evans (70th), Evans (91st), Harrison, Hines, Norquist, Robinson, Thomas, Watson, Wooten
House Bill 1401
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-313, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE WHEN THE SELECTION OF A MUNICIPAL TEMPORARY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SHALL OCCUR; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 23-15-313, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-313. If there be any political party, or parties, in any municipality which shall not have a party executive committee for such municipality, such political party, or parties, shall within thirty (30) days of the date for which a candidate for a municipal office is required to qualify in that municipality select qualified electors of that municipality and of that party's political faith to serve on a temporary municipal executive committee until members of a municipal executive committee are elected at the next regular election for executive committees. The temporary municipal executive committee shall be selected in the following manner * * *: The chairman of the county executive committee of the party desiring to select a temporary municipal executive committee shall call, upon petition of five (5) or more members of that political faith, * * * a mass meeting of the qualified electors of their political faith who reside in such municipality to meet at some convenient place within such municipality, at a time to be designated in the call, and at such mass convention the members of that political faith shall select a temporary municipal executive committee which shall serve until the next primary election. The public shall be given notice of such mass meeting as provided in the next succeeding section.
SECTION 2. The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall submit this act, immediately upon approval by the Governor, or upon approval by the Legislature subsequent to a veto, to the Attorney General of the United States or to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.
