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Senate fails to override governor's veto on House bill 19 24 tied to attorney general appropriations
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Summary
Senators rejected a motion to pass House Bill 19 24 notwithstanding the governor's veto. The clerk noted the House had reconsidered and passed the bill under Section 72 of the Mississippi Constitution, but the Senate vote failed and the bill was returned to the calendar.
During the Senate session, lawmakers considered a message from the House transmitting the governor's veto on House Bill 19 24, described in the transcript as relating to appropriations in the attorney general's budget.
Senator Hobson moved that the Senate pass the bill "notwithstanding the governor's veto by use of the afternoon roll call," saying the matter concerned opioid appropriations in the attorney general's budget. The clerk had read that the House, under the provisions of Section 72 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, had reconsidered the bill and passed it by the required two-thirds vote.
The motion proceeded to a roll-call vote. Several senators asked to have their recorded votes changed during the roll call; the presiding officer subsequently announced, "Bill fails," and the item was returned to the calendar. The transcript records the clerk reading names as part of the roll-call, but the printed record in the transcript is garbled in places and does not provide a clean, machine-readable tally in the excerpt provided.
No further procedural steps for the bill were announced in the transcript excerpt; the Senate moved on to routine committee reports and other business.
