MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2021 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Representative Read
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1-5-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE SHALL NOT PROVIDE COPIES OF THE GENERAL LAWS, JOURNALS AND LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS OF EACH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE FOR LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING ROOMS IN THE NEW CAPITOL UNLESS SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED IN WRITING BY THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OR THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE FOR THE COMMITTEE ROOMS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE HOUSE; TO PROVIDE THAT ANY OTHER RECIPIENT OF THE GENERAL LAWS AND JOURNALS LISTED IN THIS SECTION MAY WAIVE THE RECEIPT OF THE GENERAL LAWS, JOURNALS OR BOTH BY WRITTEN REQUEST TO THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE; TO DELETE THE AUTHORITY FOR THE LEGISLATIVE SERVICES OFFICES OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE TO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE GENERAL LAWS, JOURNALS AND LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 1-5-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
1-5-7. (1) The Office of the Secretary of State shall distribute and transmit, free of cost, the general laws and journals of each session of the Legislature, as follows: One (1) volume of each to the following: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, State Auditor, State Treasurer, Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals; Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Alcorn State University, University of Southern Mississippi, Delta State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University, University of Mississippi and University of Mississippi School of Law; the sheriff of each county for the county law library; each member of the Legislature; the Secretary of the Senate; the Clerk of the House; each attorney employed in the Legislative Services Offices of the House of Representatives and the Senate; each legislative committee meeting room in the New Capitol; the Legislative Reference Bureau; the Legislative Budget Office; the Department of Archives and History; and the Library of Congress at Washington, D.C.
The copies of the general
laws and journals to be provided to each sheriff, member of the
Legislature and * * *
the attorneys employed in the Legislative Services Offices of the
House and Senate under this subsection (1) shall not be provided unless
specifically requested by such sheriff, legislator or attorney in writing,
and the copies to be provided for legislative committee meeting rooms in the
New Capitol shall not be provided unless specifically requested in writing by
the Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the Senate for the committee rooms
of their respective house. Any other recipient of the general laws and
journals listed in this subsection (1) may waive the receipt of the general
laws, journals or both by written request to the Office of the Secretary of
State.
(2) The Office of
the Secretary of State shall provide, free of cost, one (1) volume of the local
and private laws to each attorney employed in the Legislative Services Offices
of the House of Representatives and the Senate; each legislative committee
meeting room in the New Capitol; and the Legislative Reference Bureau * * *.
The copies of the local
and private laws to be provided * * * to the attorneys employed in
the Legislative Services Offices of the House and Senate under this
subsection (2) shall not be provided unless specifically requested by such
attorney in writing, and the copies to be provided for legislative committee
meeting rooms in the New Capitol shall not be provided unless specifically
requested in writing by the Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the Senate
for the committee rooms of their respective house.
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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.