JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House and Senate on Thursday approved each other's redistricting plans that are likely to maintain Republican majorities in each chamber.
All US House seats to be contested in 2022 Redistricting:No change in the number of districts. Toggle between 'Consensus Forecast' and 'Current House' to see how the map has changed. Mississippi has four congressional districts; Republicans hold three of them. None of these seats have seen ...
The ruling decreed that state lawmakers must create new Black-majority Senate districts in the areas around DeSoto County in Northern Mississippi as well as in and around the city of Hattiesburg. They also must draw a new Black-majority House district in the counties of Chickasaw and Monroe. ...
reducing the 7% sales tax on groceries and enacting a plan to let children attend public schools outside the districts where they live. hosemann said the senate will propose a reduction in the grocery tax. he did not list a phase-out of the ...
Senate Education Committee Chairman Dennis DeBar said leaders of the two chambers should discuss school funding after the current legislative session ends in May and before the next one begins in January. “We need to come up with a formula, whatever that may be, ...
That same year, in June 1879, the Mississippi River Commission was created by an Act of Congress as an executive body reporting to the Secretary of War. The Commission comprised seven men nominated by thePresident of the United Statesand confirmed by the Senate. ...
Census will make political waves -- Mississippi lawmakers will redraw some state House, Senate districtsEmily Wagster Pettus