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Opinion  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
March 29, 2021

Mississippi House and Senate on cusp of an agreement for criminal justice reform

Senator Brice Wiggins (R) said negotiations on the criminal justice reform bills are close to being settled between the Mississippi House and Senate. The two major bills in the criminal justice reform effort are HB 796 and SB 2795, both of which are in the conference process. HB 796 is the habitual offender bill. It…
Opinion  |  Frank Corder  • 
March 29, 2021

Conferees remove House income tax phase out proposal from bond bill

The Mississippi House’s plan to phase out the state income tax appears to be dead, dead, dead for the 2021 session. Speaker Philip Gunn filed HB 1439, titled the “Mississippi Tax Freedom Act of 2021,” in late February.  The bill would have phased out the state income tax and reduced the grocery tax while raising…