2025 Regular SessionMississippi Legislature

HB163: Absentee ballot; provide process to cure if signatures on application and envelope do not correspond.

Legislative Summary

An Act To Amend Section 23-15-639, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide A Process For Absentee Voters To Cure Their Absentee Ballot If The Signature On The Application Does Not Meet The Signature On The Envelope; To Bring Forward Section 23-15-641, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.

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Bill History

1/10/2025
Referred To Apportionment and Elections
House of Representatives
1/23/2025
Title Suff Do Pass As Amended
House of Representatives
2/5/2025
Amended
House of Representatives
2/5/2025
Passed As Amended
House of Representatives
2/7/2025
Transmitted To Senate
House of Representatives
2/14/2025
Referred To Elections
Senate
3/4/2025
Died In Committee
Senate

Amendments

House Committee Amendment No 1

Committee Amendment No 1

Not Adopted

Roll Call Votes

House Passed As Amended
2/5/2025
118
Yea
0
Nay
2
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Failed(3/4/2025)
Chamber
Senate

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Primary Sponsor

Noah Sanford
Noah Sanford
Republican

Documents

Engrossed
Bill Text2/7/202510.0 KB
Introduced
Bill Text1/10/20259.8 KB