2025 MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATIVE SESSION RESOURCES
The 2025 Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature will convene at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. This will be a 90-day session, as it will be the second session of a four-year legislative term. Significant legislative deadlines include the following: • January 20 - Deadline for introduction of general bills and constitutional amendments • February 4 - Deadline for committees to report general bills originating in own house • February 13 - Deadline for original floor action on general bills originating in own house • March 4 - Deadline for committees to report gen - eral bills originating in other house • March 12 - Deadline for original floor action on general bills originating in other house • March 27 - Deadline to concur or not concur in amendments from other house to general bills • March 29 - Deadline for conference reports on ap - propriation bills to be filed • March 31 - Deadline for adoption of appropriation conference reports and for conference reports on general bills to be filed • April 6 - Sine Die House and Senate members are elected to represent their constituents in their respective legislative districts. It is your right and extremely important for you to share your thoughts and opinions with your senator and representa - tive throughout the session on critical pieces of legislation being considered. Phone calls/messages are much more effective than emails. Below are phone numbers for key statewide and legislative leaders. • Governor Tate Reeves: 601-359-3100 or 601-359-3150 • Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann: 601-359-3200 • Speaker of the House Jason White: 601-359-3300 • Senate Education: Senator Dennis DeBar, Jr., 601- 359-3250 • Senate Universities and Colleges: Senator Nicole Boyd, 601-359-2886 • Senate Appropriations: Senator Briggs Hopson, 601- 359-3250 • House Education: Rep. Rob Roberson, 601-359-3365
• House Universities and Colleges: Rep. Donnie Scoggin, 601-359-3365 • House Appropriations: Rep. John Read, 601-359- 3340 • Capitol Switchboard (leave a message for any legislator): 601-359-3770 MPE’s “Legislators by School District” (www.mpe.org/ legislators-by-school-district) allows you to identify legislators by school district, with contact information provided for each legislator. Legislative contact infor - mation is also available via the Mississippi Legislature’s homepage at www.legislature.ms.gov. MPE will keep our members updated as to the status of important legislation under consideration throughout the session via our weekly email updates and our social media platforms. We will issue our first bill tracking spreadsheet after the February 4 committee deadline. We will post an updated tracking sheet in the “Legisla - tive News” section of our website (www.mpe.org) each Friday.
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