Bill Text: MS SR20 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Senate Rules; amend Rule 74 to provide for bill introduction limit per senator.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-20 - Referred To Rules [SR20 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2025-SR20-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2025 Regular Session
To: Rules
By: Senator(s) Parker, Barrett, Polk, Williams, Whaley, Hopson
Senate Resolution 20
A RESOLUTION TO AMEND SENATE RULE 74 TO PROVIDE THAT EACH SENATOR WHO IS NOT A COMMITTEE CHAIR MAY INTRODUCE NO MORE THAN 10 GENERAL-DEADLINE BILLS PER LEGISLATIVE SESSION, AND EACH SENATOR WHO IS A COMMITTEE CHAIR MAY INTRODUCE NO MORE THAN 15 GENERAL-DEADLINE BILLS PER LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That Senate Rule 74 is amended to read as follows:
RULES COMMITTEE
74. Subject to the limits in this rule, Senators may introduce bills and concurrent resolutions and Senate resolutions by placing them in the box at the Secretary's desk at any time, or they may send them to the Secretary's desk when the order for introduction is reached. All bills, concurrent resolutions and Senate resolutions placed in the box or sent to the Secretary's desk will be considered as being introduced on the legislative day following the day on which they were placed in the box except for (a) legislative days where the motion has been adopted to dispense with the reading of the titles of bills and concurrent resolutions, (b) bills and constitutional amendments placed in the box on the day of the deadline for introduction of general bills and constitutional amendments, and (c) appropriation and revenue bills placed in the box on the day before the deadline for original floor action on appropriation and revenue bills originating in the Senate; bills and constitutional amendments described in items (a), (b) and (c) of this sentence will be considered as being introduced on the day on which they are placed in the box. The deadlines referred to in this paragraph shall be those established in the Joint Rules of the Senate and the House, and the determination of what is a revenue bill for purposes of this paragraph shall be as prescribed in the Joint Rules of the Senate and the House.
In addition to any other time provided by law or by rule, members of the Senate may file bills or resolutions with the Secretary of the Senate at any time during the period between sessions of the Legislature. Such prefiled bills shall be numbered by the Secretary of the Senate and referred by the President to the appropriate standing committee of the Senate for study. Such prefiled bills shall be introduced in the order filed on the first day of the next succeeding regular session of the Legislature, or extraordinary session if included within the Governor's call, and referred to committee in the regular order of business of the Senate. No bills may be prefiled in any year of a general election until after a member of the Senate has been finally elected in the November general election.
Each Senator who is not a committee chair may introduce no more than ten (10) general-deadline bills per legislative session, and each Senator who is a committee chair may introduce no more than fifteen (15) general-deadline bills per legislative session. This limit shall not apply to bills with revenue, appropriations, or local and private deadlines, nor shall it apply to resolutions or concurrent resolutions.
