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Mississippi · 2026 Regular Session · Resolution

SR 53: Recognize Katie Blount on the occasion of her retirement as Director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SR 53 is a resolution introduced in the Mississippi Senate on February 25, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Recognize Katie Blount on the occasion of her retirement as Director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Primary sponsor: Briggs Hopson (Republican). It lists 11 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 13, 2026): Adopted.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 5 · Republican 5

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Briggs HopsonPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate23
BlackwellCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Dennis DeBarCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate43
Jeremy EnglandCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate51
Hillman FrazierCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate27
Rod HickmanCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate32
JohnsonCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Dean KirbyCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate30
Walter MichelCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate25
Sollie NorwoodCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate28
Derrick SimmonsCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate12
Joseph ThomasCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate22

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Adopted
  2. Title Suff Do Be Adopted
  3. Referred To Rules

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source