Judiciary, Division A

MS - Senator Brice Wiggins (R)

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Chairman

MS - Senator Tyler McCaughn (R)

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Vice-chairman

MS - Senator Juan Barnett (D)

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Member

MS - Senator Jason Barrett (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Bradford Blackmon (D)

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Member

MS - Senator Nicole Boyd (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Dennis DeBar, Jr. (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Jeremy England (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Joey Fillingane (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Briggs Hopson (R)

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Member

MS - Senator David Parker (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Dean Kirby (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Rita Potts Parks (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Derrick T. Simmons (D)

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Member

MS - Senator Mike Thompson (R)

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Member

MS - Senator Angela Turner-Ford (D)

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Member

MS - SN59 Andre'-Louis Verloin (Andre') de Gruy, Jackson, Mississippi, State Defender in the Office of the State Public Defender, four year term effective July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2028.

MS - SB2081 Divorce; authorize a court to grant when it is determined that a marriage is irretrievably broken.

MS - SB2076 Circuit court; prohibit political candidates from addressing the public during court terms.

MS - SB2251 Mississippi Fair Housing Act; enact.

MS - SB2273 Public records exemption for Dept of Marine Resources recreational license holders; provide.

MS - SB2775 Adoption licensure board; bring forward code sections related to creation thereof.

MS - SB2792 Nonprofit corporations; clarify penalty for failure to file annual report, repeal related provision.

MS - SB2788 Commission on Judicial Performance; amend provisions related to.

MS - SB2789 Legal assistants and criminal investigators; bring forward code sections related to.

MS - SB2782 Law enforcement records involving children; bring forward code section related to.

MS - SB2777 Cyberstalking; authorize injunction when criminal charges filed.

MS - SB2783 Circuit court; prohibit political candidates from addressing the public during court terms.

MS - SB2784 Consumer protection; revise private cause of action.

MS - SB2790 Office Of State Public Defender; authorize representation of youth in delinquency and/or children in need of supervision.

MS - SB2793 Mississippi Tort Claims Act; create publicly accessible registry for certain entities subject to.

MS - SB2817 Golf carts and low-speed vehicles; require VIN issued by manufacturer or DOR for operation on public roads.

MS - SB2895 Parental consent for minor's healthcare treatment; establish certain provisions related thereto.

MS - SB2893 Health-care decisions; require parental consent for those affecting unemancipated minors with limited exceptions.

MS - HB599 Internet; create civil liability for distribution of child pornography and obscene matter by commercial entities.

MS - HB1547 Consumer Protection Act; exempt certain pharmaceutical distributors from.

MS - HB991 Mississippi Principal and Income Act of 2013; revise provisions relating to partial liquidation.

MS - HB957 Bad faith asserations of patent infringement; extend repealer on prohibitions against.

MS - SB2398 Workers' compensation; increase maximum total recovery and remove cap on permanent total disability compensation.

MS - SB2438 Mississippi State Employees Paid Parental Leave Act; enact.

MS - SB2452 Child support; create presumption that support continues past the age of majority for a disabled child.

MS - SB2454 Jurors; increase range of per diem for.

MS - SB2456 Remote online notarization; allow.

MS - SB2455 Manufactured homes; restore deleted language related to affidavit of affixation.

MS - SB2460 Child abuse reports; name of the reporter shall not be confidential.

MS - SB2453 Statewide Uniform Youth Court System; establish.

MS - SB2462 Towing companies; revise notice provisions to owners and lienholder, authorize civil penalty.

MS - SB2463 Right to Know How Safe We Are Act of 2025; enact.

MS - SB2451 Mississippi Principal and Income Act of 2013; revise provisions relating to partial liquidation.

MS - SB2464 Firearms, firearm entities and knives; prohibit governmental entities from entering into certain contracts regarding.

MS - SB2468 Free to Speak Law; enact.

MS - SB2458 Legal assistants; increase the number of in the Seventh Circuit Court District.

MS - SB2465 Department of Child Protection Services; amend provision related to durable legal guardianship as permanency option.

MS - SB2461 Department of Child Protection Services; amend provision related to durable legal guardianship as permanency option.

MS - SB2470 Department of Child Protection Services; amend provisions related to kinship payments.

MS - SB2471 Cyber breach; limit liability for certain entities.

MS - SB2466 Alienation of affection; abolish cause of action.

MS - SB2476 Grand jury; allow access to record to defendant upon request.

MS - SB2459 Child Protection Services; require disclosure of reporter in certain cases of false abuse and neglect reports.

MS - SB2473 Land ownership; prohibit nonresident alien ownership of.

MS - SB2478 State Grand Jury Act; reinstate and expand scope.

MS - SB2469 Tax sales; create study committee to study solutions to unmerchantable and uninsurable titles resulting from.

MS - SB2484 Custody; create rebuttable presumption of joint custody with equal parenting time.

MS - SB2474 Statewide Intervention Court Task Force; establish.

MS - SB2467 CPS; require to develop training statewide for mandatory reporters, provide penalties for false reports.

MS - SB2479 Criminal investigators; increase salaries and salary supplements of.

MS - SB2481 Residential subdivisions; authorize property owners to establish and/or amend covenants, conditions and restrictions.

MS - SB2486 Mental examinations; require state to pay costs for indigent defendants where examination is court-ordered.

MS - SB2482 Mississippi Electronic Court System; require free access for public defenders.

MS - SB2477 District Attorneys; increase salaries of.

MS - SB2475 Civil immunity for police protection; provide an exception where violations of state constitutional rights are alleged.

MS - SB2492 Mississippi Electronic Court System; require all courts to utilize by certain date.

MS - SB2487 Aggravated DUI; order child support to children of deceased victim.

MS - SB2489 Appellate court expense allowance; authorize receipt for judicial duties performed in any area of the state.

MS - SB2494 Wrongful death; amend provision related to.

MS - SB2472 Pesticide seller or manufacturer; provide limited immunity for in certain actions.

MS - SB2490 Youth Court referees; provide salary and benefits equivalent to justice court judges.

MS - SB2500 Mississippi Consumer Data Protection Act; enact.

MS - SB2483 Youth court records; authorize disclosure to Commission on Judicial Performance.

MS - SB2485 Gun shows; require background checks before transfer of firearm.

MS - SB2502 Administrative forfeiture; reenact section repealed on July 1, 2018, amend notice and contest procedures.

MS - SB2491 MS Public Records Act; prohibit confidentiality of settlement agreement.

MS - SB2505 Child support award; cost of health insurance coverage obtained by noncustodial parent considered in determining.

MS - SB2493 Civil actions; increase the noneconomic damages limitation other than medical malpractice.

MS - SB2503 Intervention courts; bring forward code sections related to.

MS - SB2499 Justice court; increase limit of jurisdiction.

MS - SB2501 Child sexual exploitation; provide civil liability for depiction, description or promotion of.

MS - SB2509 Youth records; authorize member of Legislature to inspect upon written release.

MS - SB2480 Youth Court Intake Officers; prohibit certain state agency personnel from performing functions of.

MS - SB2504 Department of Child Protection Services; amend provisions related to kinship payments.

MS - HB1154 Mississippi Law on Notarial Acts; revise to allow notaries to perform remote online notarization.

MS - HB1380 Cybersecurity; governmental and certain commercial entities substantially complying with standards not liable for incidents relating to.

MS - HB1509 District Attorneys; revise salaries to certain amount below chancery and circuit courts.

MS - HB1366 Circuit and Chancery Court Office Expense Allowance; revise.

MS - HB1442 Conservatorship; revise required certificates for respondents in the State Hospital at the time of the petition.

MS - SB2032 Mississippi Electronic Court System; require free access for public defenders.

MS - SB2057 Mississippi Civil Rights Act; enact.

MS - SB2056 Contraception; provide right to obtain and engage in.

MS - SB2209 Removal of squatters; authorize procedure for.

MS - SB2218 Mississippi Safe Dormitories Act; enact.

MS - SB2219 Rejecting Racism in Higher Education Act; enact.

MS - SB2223 Programs for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; prohibit universities from establishing or maintaining.

MS - SB2222 Registered sex offenders; prohibit residence in campus student housing or sorority/fraternity houses.

MS - SB2307 Stop Squatters Act; enact.

MS - SB2326 Squatters; authorize removal from property by sheriff.

MS - SB2328 Squatters; authorize removal from property by sheriff and amend Residential Landlord and Tenant Act.

MS - SC513 Constitution; amend Section 26 to expand the jurisdiction of the state grand jury.

MS - SB2516 Safe Dormitories Act; enact.

MS - SB2689 Applicants for TANF benefits; repeal section that requires drug testing as condition of eligibility.

MS - SB2755 "Vaccine Discrimination and Transparency Act"; prohibit coercion related to vaccination.

MS - SB2765 Timber contracts; prohibit certain purchasers from requiring reforestation by landowner.

MS - SB2768 Judicial redistricting; bring forward code sections related to.

MS - SB2771 Youth court; revise timeline for permanency hearings.

MS - SB2773 Juries; prohibit peremptory challenges based on certain factors.

MS - SB2761 Missing or unidentified persons; provide procedures regarding investigation of.

MS - SB2767 The Mississippi Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council; create.

MS - SB2769 Mississippi Youth Court Chancellor Act of 2025; enact recommendation of Commission on a Uniform Youth Court System and Procedures.

MS - SB2770 Department of Child Protection Services; revise provision related to guardian ad litems and CPS representation by counsel.

MS - SB2766 Adoption petitions; clarify that attached certificate may be executed by any physician.

MS - SB2787 Bad faith assertions of patent infringement; repeal repealer on.

MS - SB2780 Notaries; authorize commissions for persons residing within 15 miles of the border of Mississippi.

MS - SB2791 Grand jury investigations; require notice of investigation to law enforcement officers and opportunity to testify.

MS - SB2776 Department of Child Protection Services; amend youth court intake provisions related to duties of.

MS - SB2781 Investigative reports; exempt youth court reports from the Mississippi Public Records Act, bring forward provisions related to.Commission on Judicial Performance.

MS - SB2785 Department of Child Protection Services; amend provision related to the expenditure of funds by.

MS - SB2774 Department of Child Protection Services; authorize sole placement authority for children in legal custody of CPS.

MS - SB2786 Ending Agency Overreach Act; enact.

MS - SB2779 Mississippi Consumer Data Privacy Act; enact.

MS - SB2879 Nonprofit animal shelters; require recordkeeping and the sterilization of all dogs and cats sold or released for adoption.

MS - SB2880 Carbon credits or sequestration; require recorded instrument to convey.

MS - SB2884 Sexual assault evidence kits; require annual inventory and publication of report.

MS - SB2886 Mississippi Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team Law; enact.

MS - SB2882 Jurors; expand pool to citizens with driver's license who have filed state income taxes.

MS - SB2899 Court reporters; increase authorized salary for.

MS - HB162 Justice Court; revise filing fees.

MS - HB1198 Lands struck off to the state; require when deed is not demanded upon expiration of redemption period.

MS - HB624 Criminal investigators; increase salaries of.

MS - HB1063 MS State Employees Paid Parental Leave Act; create.

MS - HB525 Commercial Driver's License; require notice to employer when possibility of suspension for unpaid child support.

MS - HB1492 Noncusodial Parents' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities; create.

MS - HB1398 Municipal judges; provide a term of office for.

MS - HB1546 Supreme Court and Court of Appeals; judicial districts.

MS - HB1252 MEC; require free access to public defenders.

MS - HB1451 Clerks in youth court; remove prohibition against receiving compensation for attending youth court.

MS - HB1150 Judges; bring forward section for reimbursement of travel expenses for purposes of amendment.

MS - HB1513 Board of Trustees of the MS Adoption Licensure Authority; authorize and regulate adoption procedures.

MS - HB1304 Joint custody of children; authorize for any type of divorce.

MS - HB1260 Foreign Third-Party Litigation Funders; require disclosure to the Attorney General.

MS - HB1387 Kinship payments for foster children; revise who may be paid.

MS - HB1197 The Safe Solicitation Act; create to regulate issuance of solicitation permits.

MS - HB1200 "Real Property Owners Protection Act"; create.

MS - HB1551 Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board; create within Department of Health.

MS - HB1459 CCID; authorize Supreme Court Justice to appoint full-time and part-time judges.

MS - HB1449 Twentieth Circuit Court District; increase assistant district attorneys and criminal investigators.

MS - HB1473 Ad valorem taxes; require notice of any unpaid taxes to landowner after deed of trust is satisfied.

MS - HB1472 Child Protection Services; clarify manner of expening federal funds, and when it pays expenses for child in custody when ordered by court.

MS - HB848 Opioid Settlement Fund Committee; create to disburse opioid litigation settlement monies.

MS - HB1544 Judicial districts; bring forward for purposes of amendment.