MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2013 Regular Session
To: Apportionment and Elections; Appropriations
By: Representative Flaggs
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-266, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO BE PAID FOR CONDUCTING PRIMARY ELECTIONS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 23-15-266, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-266. (1) A county or municipal executive committee shall be eligible to enter into written agreements with a circuit or municipal clerk or a county or municipal election commission as provided for in Section 23-15-239(2), 23-15-265(2), 23-15-267(4), 23-15-333(4), 23-15-335(2) or 23-15-597(2), only if the political party with which such county or municipal executive committee is affiliated:
(a) Has cast for its candidate for Governor in the last two (2) gubernatorial elections ten percent (10%) of the total vote cast for governor; or
(b) Has cast for its candidate for Governor in three (3) of the last five (5) gubernatorial elections twenty-five percent (25%) of the total vote cast for Governor.
(2) The commissioners of election shall be entitled to receive a per diem for conducting primary elections in an amount equal to the per diem authorized by Section 23-15-153(2).
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.