LEGISLATIVE Article 4 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 creates a House of Representatives and a Senate jointly vested with lawmaking authority as well as the power of the purse, a provision that no money can be spent from the State’s treasury unless the Legislature passes a law to do so. Mississippi Legislature . .97 Senate By District Number . 98 Senate District Map . 99 Officers of the State Senate . 100 Members of the State Senate . .100 Senate Staff . 114 Senate Standing Committees . 115 House of Representatives By District Number . 119 House District Map . .120 Officers of the House . 121 Members of the State House of Representatives . 121 House Staff . .152 House Standing Committees . .153 Timetable for Processing Legislation . .158 Joint Rules for Legislation . .159 How a Bill Becomes a Law . .160 Legislative Resources . 162. LEGISLATIVE THE MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE The 1890 Mississippi Constitution places sole law-making authority in the bi-cameral Legislature, which also has the power of the purse, a constitutional provision stipulating no money can be spent from the State’s treasury unless the Legislature passes a law to do so . The Senate exercises advice and consent over appointments made by the Governor . The power of impeachment is vested solely in the House; the power to try impeachment lies in the Senate . The House has the duty to elect the Governor if no candidate receives a majority of both the popular vote and the electoral vote in the general election . There are 52 members of the Senate and 122 members of the House of Representatives . Officers: The President and presiding officer Length of Session: The Constitution provides of the Senate is the Lieutenant Governor; for legislative sessions to last no more than the second in command is the President Pro 90 days except for the first session of a new Tempore . The presiding officer of the House term, which may not exceed 125 days . Sessions of Representatives is the Speaker of the House, may be extended by a two-thirds vote in both a State Representative who is elected to the houses . When needed, the Governor may call a position by House members . The Speaker Pro special session with a specific legislative focus . Tempore is the second-ranking Representative . Numerous legislative committees also work between sessions on a wide variety of proposals . Terms and Sessions: Legislators are In addition, individual legislators often use the administered the oath of office by the Secretary interim months to research and prepare bills for of State on the first day of the regular session of the next session . Members also work to help the the year following election . The Constitution citizens they represent . requires the Legislature to convene yearly on the Tuesday after the first Monday in January . Accountability: All proceedings in Senate and House journals are published by the Secretary Volume of Legislation: During each regular of State . Moreover, the Constitution requires the session, the Legislature sends to the Governor doors of each chamber shall be open “except in more than 500 bills to be signed into law . cases which may require secrecy .” Frequently, more than 100 of those bills involve the finance of state government (appropriations) . Redistricting: The Constitution requires The Secretary of State’s Office assigns the Legislature to draw new, contiguous chapter numbers to the bills, distributes copies state legislative districts every ten years to according to law, publishes all bills in the General reflect changes in population . No more than Laws volumes, and certifies the bills for legal 52 Senatorial Districts and 122 House of proceedings as requested . Representative Districts are allowed . The Mississippi Legislature is also charged with Rules: The Constitution stipulates that the responsibility of drawing districts for the bills may originate in either chamber of the U .S . House of Representatives following each Legislature . It empowers each chamber to census . If the Legislature does not adopt the determine its own rules of procedure, although new legislative districts in the time allowed by each is prohibited from adjourning for more the Constitution, a five-member commission than three days without the consent of the other consisting of the Chief Justice of the Supreme chamber . Adjourning to places other than the Court as chairman, the Attorney General, the House and Senate chambers is prohibited as well . Secretary of State, the Speaker of the House of Each body adopts its own rules, although joint Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore rules are adopted to govern legislative procedures of the Senate must do so . Miss . Const . of 1890, that affect the orderly flow of bills between Art . XIII, § 254 . Miss . Code Ann . § 5-3-81 the houses . et seq . (1972) . 97 LEGISLATIVE 2016-2020 MISSISSIPPI STATE SENATE - BY DISTRICT # Terry C. Burton, President Pro Tempore ....31 John Horhn . 26 Chris Massey . 1 Hillman T . Frazier . 27 DESOTO BENTON ALCORN TISHO- David Parker . 2 Sollie B . Norwood . 28 MINGO MARSHALL TIPPAH TATE PRENTISS Nickey Browning . 3 David Blount . 29 TUNICA UNION Rita Potts Parks . 4 Dean Kirby . 30 PANOLA J . P . Wilemon Jr . 5 Sampson Jackson II . 32 COAHOMA LAFAYETTE PONTOTOC LEE ITAWAMBA Chad McMahan . 6 Videt Carmichael . 33 QUITMAN Hob Bryan . 7 Juan Barnett . 34 YALOBUSHA TALAHATCHIE Russell Jolly . 8 Chris Caughman . 35 CALHOUN CHICKASAW MONROE BOLIVAR Gray Tollison . 9 Albert Butler . 36 GRENADA Bill Stone . 10 Bob M . Dearing . 37 CLAY MONT- WEBSTER Robert L . Jackson . 11 Tammy Witherspoon . 38 SUN- GOMERY FLOWER LEFLORE CARROLL Derrick T . Simmons . 12 Sally Doty . 39 OKTIBBEHA LOWNDES CHOCTAW Willie Simmons . 13 Angela Burks Hill . 40 HOLMES WASHINGTON HUMPHREYS Lydia Chassaniol . 14 Joey Fillingane . 41 ATTALA WINSTON Gary Jackson . 15 Chris McDaniel . 42 SHARKEY NOXUBEE YAZOO Angela Turner Ford . 16 Dennis DeBar Jr . 43 ISSAQUENA LEAKE Charles Younger . 17 John Polk . 44 MADISON NESHOBA KEMPER Jenifer B . Branning . 18 Billy Hudson . 45 WARREN Kevin Blackwell . 19 Philip Moran . 46 SCOTT NEWTON LAUDERDALE Josh Harkins . 20 Joseph M . (Mike) Seymour . 47 HINDS RANKIN Barbara Blackmon . 21 Deborah J . Dawkins . 48 SMITH JASPER CLAIBORNE CLARKE Eugene S . Clarke . 22 Sean Tindell . 49 SIMPSON COPIAH W . Briggs Hopson III . 23 Tommy Gollott . 50 JEFFERSON COVINGTON LAWRENCE WAYNE David Jordan . 24 Michael Watson . 51 LINCOLN FRANKLIN JEFFERSON J . Walter Michel . 25 Brice Wiggins . 52 ADAMS DAVIS JONES LAMAR GREENE MARION FOR- WILKINSON PIKE WALTHALL PERRY AMITE REST GEORGE PEARL RIVER STONE JACKSON HARRISON HANCOCK 98 LEGISLATIVE MISSISSIPPI SENATE DISTRICTS DESOTO BENTON ALCORN TISHO- MINGO MARSHALL TIPPAH TATE PRENTISS TUNICA UNION PANOLA COAHOMA LAFAYETTE PONTOTOC LEE ITAWAMBA QUITMAN YALOBUSHA TALAHATCHIE CALHOUN CHICKASAW MONROE BOLIVAR GRENADA CLAY MONT- WEBSTER SUN- GOMERY FLOWER LEFLORE CARROLL OKTIBBEHA LOWNDES CHOCTAW HOLMES WASHINGTON HUMPHREYS ATTALA WINSTON SHARKEY NOXUBEE YAZOO ISSAQUENA LEAKE MADISON NESHOBA KEMPER WARREN SCOTT NEWTON LAUDERDALE HINDS RANKIN SMITH JASPER CLAIBORNE CLARKE SIMPSON COPIAH JEFFERSON COVINGTON LAWRENCE WAYNE LINCOLN FRANKLIN JEFFERSON ADAMS DAVIS JONES LAMAR GREENE MARION FOR- WILKINSON PIKE WALTHALL PERRY AMITE REST GEORGE PEARL RIVER STONE JACKSON HARRISON HANCOCK 99 LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS OF THE SENATE President of the Senate President Pro Tempore of TATE REEVES the Senate Lieutenant Governor TERRY C. BURTON District 31 Elected in a Duties: Capitol Building, Room 307 statewide campaign for (601) 359-3209 a four-year term, the Lieutenant Governor Duties: Elected by the serves as President of the majority party caucus Senate . In this role, the followed by confirmation President of the Senate’s of the entire Senate official duties include presiding over the Senate, through a Senate Resolution, the President ruling on points of order, nominating standing Pro Tempore presides over the Senate in the committees of the Senate, and appointing all absence of the Lieutenant Governor in his role as select and conference committees as ordered President of the Senate . by the Senate . The Lieutenant Governor is a The President Pro Tempore’s power is limited member of the Senate Rules Committee, directs in that the Lieutenant Governor has the sole officers and employees of the Senate, votes only authority to appoint the chairmanships or vice in cases of ties, speaks from the floor only while chairmanships of various Senate committees . the Senate is in Committee of the Whole, and Like the President of the Senate, the President signs all finally approved bills and resolutions . Pro Tempore casts a legislative vote only if The Lieutenant Governor only votes in case of a required to break a tie . tie on the floor . MISSISSIPPI STATE SENATE JUAN BARNETT BARBARA District 34: Forrest, BLACKMON Jasper, Jones District 21: Attala, Holmes, P .O . Box 407 Leake, Madison, Yazoo Heidelberg 39439 907 West Peace Street jbarnett@senate ms. .gov Canton 39046 (601) 359-3221 bblackmon@senate ms. .gov (601) 859-1567 Barnett was first elected in to the Senate in 2016 Blackmon, a Democrat, and is a Democrat . He was born on February 21, was first elected to office in 1992 . She was 1970 in Laurel and is of the Baptist faith . Barnett born December 7, 1955 in Jackson and is of the is a graduate of Heidelberg High School and Baptist faith . Senator Blackmon, an attorney, is a Livingston University . He is married to Jacqueline graduate of Jackson State University, University and