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Mississippi Senate Medicaid Committee Chairman Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, left, confers with Mississippi House Medicaid Committee Chairman Rep. Missy McGee, R-Hattiesburg, center, and a Senate legislative attorney, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in the hallways of the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., moments before both chambers voted to recommit Medicaid expansion legislation. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Medicaid expansion effort collapses in Republican-led Mississippi Legislature

The first serious effort by Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature to expand Medicaid has died. Negotiators missed a Thursday night deadline to file a final proposal, and that killed the issue for the four-month session.
 
Mississippi House Medicaid Committee Chairwoman Rep. Missy McGee, R-Hattiesburg, right, asks a question of the representatives from the Hilltop Institute, a nonpartisan research organization, unseen, who presented a brief on the economic impact of Medicaid expansion in Mississippi, to the committee, media and lobbyists at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Feb 20, 2024. Committee member State Rep. Clay Mansell, R-Clinton, left, was among the legislators who attended the briefing. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Georgia has the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement. Mississippi could be next

 
FILE - Mississippi state Sen. David Parker, R-Olive Branch, speaks during a debate at the state Capitol on Feb. 7, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. On Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann named Parker as the new chairman of the Senate Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency Committee, which will give Parker influence over creating a new initiative process for Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

New chairman in Mississippi Senate will shape proposals to revive an initiative process

 
Mississippi Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, right, smiles as he talks with Republican state Sens. Jeremy England, of Vancleave, center, and Scott DeLano, of Biloxi, in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. Hosemann defeated two challengers in the Republican primary for lieutenant governor. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Contentious Mississippi GOP primary race for lieutenant governor exposes rift among conservatives

 
Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann speaks to reporters after voting in the party primary at his precinct in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. Hosemann who is seeking reelection, faces two opponents in the party primary. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann wins heated GOP primary as statewide candidates square off

 

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FILE - Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves addresses the crowd at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., July 27, 2023. Reeves faces two opponents in the party primary Aug. 8, as he seeks reelection. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

AP Election Brief | What to expect in Mississippi’s state primaries

Tuesday is primary day in Mississippi. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves’ bid for renomination to a second term tops the list of contests voters will decide.
 
Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann addresses the crowd at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Hosemann seeks reelection, but first must obtain his party's nomination for lieutenant governor in the party primary, Aug. 8. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

GOP candidates for Mississippi lieutenant governor clash in speeches ahead of primary

Mississippi’s Republican lieutenant governor and a state senator attempting to unseat him traded insults Wednesday in back-to-back speeches at one of the state’s largest political gatherings.
 
This photo provided by Melissa England shows her husband, Mississippi state Sen. Jeremy England, dressed in a Halloween costume to raise money for breast cancer research, on Oct. 31, 2020. In an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, July 21, 2023, Jeremy England said a similar photo of him in the tutu was published on social media along with a slur after he appeared in a TV ad supporting Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, who faces two challengers in the Aug. 8, 2023, Republican primary. (Melissa England via AP)

Mississippi senator says tutu photo is misused in campaign. He’s raising money for cancer research

Mississippi Republican state Sen. Jeremy England says he intentionally wore a “very embarrassing” Halloween costume to raise money for breast cancer research.
 
State Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, listens as fellow Republicans emphasize the importance of voting in the party's primary, on Aug. 8, during the Scott County Republican Rally in Forest, Miss., Tuesday, July 18, 2023. McDaniel is trying to unseat Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, and the two men are locked in a contentious primary, with campaigns trading barbs in television ads and at campaign events. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Letter reviewed by the AP undercuts Mississippi candidate’s accusation against lieutenant governor

The Republican lieutenant governor’s race in Mississippi has turned nasty with primary elections just under three weeks away. Lt. Gov.
 
Mississippi Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, who is seeking his party's renomination for lieutenant governor, responds to a newspaper publisher's question during the Mississippi Press Association annual meeting in Flowood, Miss., Friday, June 16, 2023. Hosemann faces State Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, in the party's primary. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Republicans tout conservative credentials in lieutenant governor primary

Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and state Sen. Chris McDaniel, the fellow Republican trying to unseat him in a primary challenge, are seeking to burnish their conservative credentials on the campaign trail.
 
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, left, speaks to reporters alongside Senate Appropriations Committee member Dennis DeBar Jr., R-Leakesville, center, and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Briggs Hopson, R-Vicksburg, about proposed legislation to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) and inject an additional $181.1 million into school budgets, following a meeting of the committee Monday, March 6, 2023, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Senate votes to tweak school funding formula

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi senators voted Tuesday to revise the state’s education budget formula that has been in law since 1997 but has been fully funded only two years.
 
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, left, speaks to reporters alongside Senate Appropriations Committee member Dennis DeBar Jr., R-Leakesville, center, and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Briggs Hopson, R-Vicksburg, about proposed legislation to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) and inject an additional $181.1 million into school budgets, following a meeting of the committee Monday, March 6, 2023, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Senate pushes for fully funding public schools

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Senate leaders are pushing to rewrite the state’s education budget formula, which has only fully funded public schools twice since it was put into law in 1997.
 
FILE - Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, responds to a reporter's question following adjournment on the first day of the 2023 Legislature at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Jan. 3, 2023. Tax relief proposals favored by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and Republican legislative leaders stalled Wednesday, Feb. 22, and appear to be dead for the entire election-year legislative session, despite a GOP supermajority in the House and Senate. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi tax cut bills stall despite GOP leaders’ push

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Tax relief proposals favored by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and Republican legislative leaders stalled Wednesday and appear to be dead for the entire election-year legislative session, despite the GOP holding a supermajority in the House and Senate.
 
Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, announces his bid to run for lieutenant governor at the state GOP headquarters in Jackson, Miss., Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

McDaniel challenges Mississippi lt. governor in GOP primary

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Chris McDaniel — a four-term Mississippi legislator who has lost two races for U.S.
 
Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, right, speaks about proposed legislation that standardizes some sentencing for a number of crimes, including motor vehicle theft, fleeing law enforcement and resisting arrest, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson. Attending the briefing, were Senate Judiciary A Committee Chairman Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, left, Senate Judiciary B Committee vice chairman Jeremy England, R-Vancleave, rear, and Senate Judiciary B Committee chairman Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, second from left. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Hosemann: Strengthen penalties for carjacking, other crimes

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Thursday that he wants to set stronger penalties for carjacking, resisting arrest and fleeing from law enforcement officers.
 
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, a Republican, is backed by some senators as he discusses health care legislation during a news conference in his office at the state Capitol in Jackson, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Senate leaders unveil health care proposals

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi senators are proposing an $80 million grant program for financially struggling hospitals and other programs to help the state attract and retain nurses and physicians, Lt.
 
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann addresses state business leaders at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss., during the Mississippi Economic Council's Capital Day, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. The gathering allows business and community leaders an opportunity to meet with state leaders and legislators to discuss the upcoming session. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi lieutenant governor launches bid for 2nd term

JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann filed Thursday to seek reelection, launching his bid for a second term as the state’s second-highest ranking official.
 
FILE - Mississippi Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn of Clinton, left, fist bumps Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann at the Mississippi Economic Council's annual "Hobnob Mississippi" in Jackson, Miss., Oct. 27, 2022. Gunn says he wants legislators to eliminate the Mississippi income tax during the 2023 session. Hosemann, who is also a Republican, says he favors an income tax rebate. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi legislators could debate tax cuts again in 2023

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators return to the Capitol on Tuesday, and their three-month session could be dominated by debates over taxes.
 
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves explains to reporters some of the line items that he vetoed from the appropriations allocated by the state Legislature, Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Reeves vetoes money for golf courses and other projects

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Thursday that he has vetoed spending for several projects, including more than $13 million to revive a golf course and create an adventure trail at LeFleur’s Bluff State Park in Jackson.
 
As is his tradition, House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, right, shakes the hand and says goodbye to each lawmaker, such as Rep. Shane Aguirre, R-Tupelo, at the conclusion of the legislative session at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Teacher raise, tax cut top issues in Mississippi session

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators have finished their busiest session in years after enacting the largest teacher pay raise in a generation and setting the state’s largest-ever income tax cut.
 
House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, left, listens as Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann closes a meeting of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, Friday, March 25, 2022 at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Top Mississippi lawmakers reach deal on income tax cut

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi House and Senate leaders reached a deal Saturday to reduce the state income tax over four years, saying it would be the largest tax cut in the state’s history.
 
Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, presents to reporters the House's position on their state income tax elimination legislation at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

House speaker not budging on Medicaid extension for new moms

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says he opposes efforts to revive a proposal that would let mothers keep Medicaid coverage for a year after giving birth.
 
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann tells reporters Monday, March 14, 2022, that he and other state Senate leaders propose a six-month suspension of the state's gasoline tax to give drivers a break amid rising gas prices, during a news conference at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson. The tax is 18.4 cents per gallon, and money from it goes to the state Department of Transportation. The proposal would have to be approved by the House, the Senate and Republican Gov. Tate Reeves. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Lt. Gov. Hosemann: Suspend Mississippi gas tax 6 months

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Monday that he and other Senate leaders are pushing to suspend the state’s gasoline tax for six months to give drivers a break as gas prices continue climbing.
 
Cassandra Welchlin, co-convener and state lead of the Mississippi Black Women's Roundtable, speaks at a news conference in Jackson, Monday, March 14, 2022, to promote a proposal to let mothers keep Medicaid coverage for a year after giving birth. Advocates for low-income women say longer coverage by the government health insurance program could reduce Mississippi's high rate of maternal mortality. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi could renew push to extend Medicaid for new moms

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led Senate will try to revive a proposal to let mothers keep Medicaid coverage for a year after giving birth, Lt. Gov.
 
Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, left, joins other Mississippi House leaders in saying they have signed off on a plan to increase some of the lowest teacher salaries in the nation by an average of $4,850, during an afternoon news briefing at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, March 10, 2022. The plan now goes to the Senate for consideration. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi House makes opening bid on teacher pay deal

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi House leaders said Thursday that they have signed off on a plan to increase some of the lowest teacher salaries in the nation by an average of $4,850.
 
FILE - House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, right, greets Rep. Charles Young, D-Meridian, prior to the start of the 90-day session at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Gunn is pushing a plan to eliminate the state income tax over several years. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Analysis: Mississippi legislators face pocketbook decisions

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators are supposed to make big decisions about the state’s pocketbook in the next few weeks, setting a budget that exceeds $6 billion and deciding whether to approve tax cuts.
 
House Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Trey Lamar, R–Senatobia, introduces a bill on the Mississippi House of Representatives floor to phase out income tax, reduce grocery tax and increase the state sales tax in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. The bill was passed by a vote of 96-12. (Barbara Gauntt/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)

Mississippi House takes 1st step to approve tax cut plan

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi would phase out its income tax, reduce the sales tax on groceries and set a higher sales tax rate on many other items, under a bill that advanced Wednesday through the state House.
 
House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton listens to reporters following adjournment of the body on the first day of the 90-day Legislative Session at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi House panel OKs bill to phase out income tax

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House is working on a proposal to phase out the state income tax, reduce the sales tax on groceries and increase the sales tax on many other items.
 
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann tells reporters Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, that the state should provide health insurance for working people, but sharply rebuffed a question about expanding Medicaid, at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., following the start of the latest Legislative Session, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Senate leaders propose teacher pay increase

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Senate leaders are proposing a plan to increase teachers’ pay an average of $4,700 over two years to try to move the state away from its perpetually low national ranking for educators’ salaries.
 
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann tells reporters Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, that the state should provide health insurance for working people, but sharply rebuffed a question about expanding Medicaid, at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., following the start of the latest Legislative Session, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi lieutenant governor tests positive for COVID-19

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann has tested positive for COVID-19 after the opening day of a legislative session when Hosemann and many other people were walking around the Capitol without wearing masks.
 
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann tells reporters Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, that the state should provide health insurance for working people, but sharply rebuffed a question about expanding Medicaid, at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., following the start of the latest Legislative Session, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Hosemann: State should provide insurance for working people

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One of Mississippi’s top legislative leaders said Tuesday that the state should provide health insurance for working people, but sharply rebuffed a question about expanding Medicaid.
 

Democrat from east Mississippi takes oath in state Senate

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Senate is back up to its full membership of 52 people.

Democratic Sen.
 
FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2021 file photo, Gov. Tate Reeves responds to a reporter's question during a news briefing regarding Mississippi's COVID-19 response in Jackson, Miss. Reeves says he's working with legislative leaders on details about how the state will pay for a proposed medical marijuana program. The Republican governor said Wednesday, Sept. 29, that he will call lawmakers to the Capitol for a special session “sooner rather than later." (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Reeves: No date for legislative session on medical marijuana

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday he is working with legislative leaders on details about how the state will pay for a proposed medical marijuana program.
 
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, left, and Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, right, listen as Sam Polles, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, center, explains his agency's budget needs during a meeting of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi gov: Still no word on medical marijuana session

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Monday was still not saying whether he will call legislators into special session to enact a medical marijuana program and consider other issues that House and Senate leaders are promoting.
 
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, left, and Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton confer during a meeting of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi session requested on medical marijuana proposal

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislative leaders said Friday that they are asking Republican Gov.
 
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