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April 20, 2016

Legislature looks to tighten welfare programs, increase Medicaid verifications

Legislature Considers Auditing Welfare Recipients A joint House-Senate committee filed the latest version of House Bill 1116 Monday. It would have an outside company build an electronic records system for Medicaid. Officials would periodically verify recipients’ financial information and residency to determine whether they’re still eligible for aid. A discrepancy would result in someone losing…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 20, 2016

Campaign finance reform dead but not quite dead dead dead just yet

Mississippi House Turns Back Campaign Cash Rules The Mississippi House may have killed a bill that would have restricted personal use of campaign money on a voice vote, with no record of how individual members voted. Tuesday’s vote on House Bill 797 followed a debate in which a number of longtime House members complained about…