Dead or alive: Where campaign finance and elections bills stand in the Mississippi Legislature
Mississippians will not have access to a system to place statewide issues on a ballot, at least for another year. But they might soon be able to more easily see who funds politicians’ campaigns.
Thursday was the deadline for the Mississippi Legislature to pass some bills in the full Senate or House. Those that were not approved by one chamber or another died, although lawmakers can sometimes revive measures by amending bills that lived.
Elections and voting issues are some of the hottest debated policy items at the Capitol. For the fifth straight year, lawmakers failed to agree on a way to restore Mississippi’s ballot initiative. Each year in recent years, lawmakers push to reform Mississippi’s election laws and notorious lax campaign finance laws. But these efforts over the last several years, including this current session, have mostly sputtered.
Here is a list of where election-related bills stand during so far in the 2026 legislative session:
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/02/16/election-campaign-finance-legislature/