Representative Goverment: State Legislature

League of Women Voters^®
of Mississippi, Inc.

Representative Goverment: State Legislature

The League supports an open government that is representative, accountable, and responsive to all citizens.

The League of Women Voters of Mississippi:

supports reform to improve the legislative process, accountability, decision making, and responsiveness toward the needs of Mississippians.

To this end, the League of Women Voters of Mississippi:

supports establishing a joint Legislative Management Committee.
supports improving the research and drafting staff by hiring additional personnel with expertise in areas of major legislative concern.
supports reducing the number of committees.
supports establishing definite schedules for committee meetings.
supports posting Conference committee meeting times and room number on the state website.
supports systematic publishing of numbers and titles of bills to be considered.
supports installing automatic voting equipment in the Senate chamber.
supports moving up the deadline schedules on the calendar to avoid logjams at the end of the session.
supports reporting all bills out of committee onto the floor, each with a do or do not pass recommendation.
supports improving the decorum in both houses in order to facilitate better understanding of proceedings by observing public in the galleries and also by the Legislature.

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