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Mississippi House overrides line-item vetoes and refers other vetoed projects back to committee
Summary
After reading multiple veto messages, the House voted to override line-item vetoes in House Bill 19-24 and debated whether to recommit other vetoed projects; members split between immediate overrides and procedural referral to committee.
The Mississippi House of Representatives debated governor veto messages on multiple appropriation measures and took recorded action on a pair of bills before recessing for committee work.
The clerk read a governor’s veto message that identified partial vetoes in House Bill 19-24 and criticized several bills for lacking oversight language. Representative Mims moved to refer vetoed line items in House Bill 19-24 back to Appropriations D for further consideration; Representative Scott objected, urging the body to override the vetoes instead and arguing that many of…
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