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Mississippi Senate dispenses with routine readings, sets committee meeting schedule and recess times
Summary
The Mississippi Senate waived routine readings, scheduled a series of committee meetings across the afternoon and moved into recess with plans to extend until committee reports are filed or 8 p.m.; several committees announced meeting times ahead of the session deadline.
The Mississippi Senate voted to dispense with routine readings of the journal, committee reports and bill titles and set multiple committee meetings and recess times during its floor session. Senator Blackwell moved the procedural steps, which passed by voice vote.
The votes and schedule setting matter because they speed the chamber’s consideration of bills before the session deadline and determine when committees will meet to take up remaining legislation. Senators used the floor time to announce committee meeting times and locations that will determine whether several pending measures can advance before the deadline.
Senator Blackwell moved on the floor, “I move we dispense with the reading of the journal,” and the motion carried by voice vote. He repeated similar motions to dispense with the reading of committee reports and to dispense with the reading of the…
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