Become part of the movement for unbiased, accessible election information. Donate today.
Local and Private Legislation Committee, Mississippi House of Representatives
The Local and Private Legislation Committee is a standing committee of the Mississippi House of Representatives. Per Rule 60 of the House Rules, the committee is made up of seven members.[1]
Per Rule 60(4) of the House Rules, committee appointments in the Mississippi House of Representatives are made by the Speaker of the House.[2] After the adoption of House Rules, committees are appointed according to legislators' preferences as well as seniority, abilities and geographic location.[3] Representatives are to submit a list of at least 10 committee preferences by 5 p.m. on the third calendar day of the legislative session following an election. A legislator who has served in the House less than four years in his or her lifetime is guaranteed two of his or her top seven preferences unless appointed to the Appropriations or Ways and Means Committees; one who has served for four or more years in his or her lifetime is guaranteed three of his or her first seven choices unless appointed to the Appropriations or Ways and Means Committees.[2] Representatives are barred from serving on both the Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees, and may serve on at least four standing committees.[4] The first person appointed to a committee is to serve as the chair, with the second serving as vice chair. A representative appointed to serve as chair or vice chair of a committee is barred from serving in either position on another committee.[5] The Speaker and Speaker Pro Tempore serve on the Rules and Management Committees ex officio.[6]
See rules: House Rules
Function
| “ | There shall be appointed in each house of the Legislature a standing committee on Local and Private Legislation; the House committee to consist of seven (7) representatives and the Senate committee of five (5) senators. No local or private bill shall be passed by either house until it shall have been referred to said committee thereof and shall have been reported back with a recommendation in writing that it do pass, stating affirmatively the reasons therefor, and why the end to be accomplished should not be reached by general law, or by a proceeding in court; or if the recommendation of the committee be that the bill do not pass, then it shall not pass the house to which it is so reported unless it be voted for by a majority of all the members elected thereto. If a bill is passed in conformity to the requirements hereof, other than such as prohibited in the next section, the courts shall not, because of its local, special or private nature refuse to enforce it.[7][8] | ” |
Membership
2025-2026 legislative session
|
Local and Private Legislation Committee, 2025-2026 |
||
|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (2) | Republican members (5) | Third-party members(0) |
|
|
|
2023-2024 legislative session
|
Local and Private Legislation Committee, 2023-2024 |
||
|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (2) | Republican members (5) | Third-party members(0) |
|
|
|
2020-2021 legislative session
|
Local and Private Legislation Committee, 2020-2021 |
||
|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (2) | Republican members (5) | Third-party members(0) |
|
|
|
2015 legislative session
The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.
| Local and Private Legislation Members, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (2) | Republican members (3) | |||
| • Kelvin Butler | • Perry Lee, Chair | |||
| • Hob Bryan | • Tony Smith, Vice-Chair | |||
| • Tommy Gollott | ||||
2012-2013
|
|
|
2010-2011
- Willie Perkins, Sr. Chair
- Kimberly Campbell Buck Vice Chair
- Warner McBride
- Gary Chism
- Dirk Dedeaux
- Robert Johnson, III
- Frances Fredericks
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Mississippi Legislature, "House Rules," accessed February 3, 2014 Rule 60(d)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mississippi Legislature, "House Rules," accessed February 19, 2021(Rule 60(4))
- ↑ Mississippi Legislature, "House Rules," accessed February 19, 2021(Rule 60(5))
- ↑ Mississippi Legislature, "House Rules," accessed February 19, 2021(Rule 60(2))
- ↑ Mississippi Legislature, "House Rules," accessed February 19, 2021(Rule 61)
- ↑ Mississippi Legislature, "House Rules," accessed February 19, 2021(Rules 10(5), 11 and 11A)
- ↑ Mississippi Legislature, "House Rules," accessed February 19, 2021 Section 116
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
