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HB 29

Mississippi Fair Housing Act; create.

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Omeria Scott

HB 29 would create the Mississippi Fair Housing Act to prohibit housing discrimination based on protected classes and establish state enforcement and remedies.

Died In Committee
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Bill Summary · HB 29

Short answer
I don’t have the text or any committee reports for “HB 29 — Mississippi Fair Housing Act; create.” in the materials you supplied (those materials are a mixed set of unrelated HB 29 documents from other states and topics). I can’t produce a definitive, accurate summary of a Mississippi bill I can’t see.

I can, however:
- Tell you exactly what I need to produce a full, accurate summary, and
- Provide a ready-to-use summary template and a clearly labeled hypothetical/example summary of what a “Mississippi Fair Housing Act” commonly would contain (useful if you want a draft for discussion).

Please tell me which you want (provide the bill text or choose the draft). Below are both options.

What I need to produce an authoritative summary
- The bill text (full PDF or plain text) or a direct link to the bill on the Mississippi Legislature site.
- Sponsor(s), committee reports, fiscal note(s), and any amendments.
- Any legislative history (committee votes, floor votes, and current status — you already noted “Died In Committee” and introduced date Aug 27, 2025).

If you provide those, I’ll deliver a 200–400 word, objective summary that covers purpose, key provisions, affected parties, fiscal effects, and timetable.

Template summary (ready to fill once you provide text)
- Title & status: HB 29 — Mississippi Fair Housing Act; create. Introduced: Aug 27, 2025. Status: Died in Committee.
- Purpose: One-sentence description of the bill’s intent (for example, to expand or codify protections against housing discrimination on protected classes and to establish enforcement mechanisms).
- Key provisions:
- Covered conduct and protected classes (list of protected characteristics: race, color, national origin, sex, disability, familial status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, etc.).
- Scope (sale, rental, lending, advertising, mortgage and insurance practices, zoning or land use restrictions).
- Enforcement structure (state agency enforcement, private right of action, administrative complaint process, civil penalties, injunctive relief, attorney’s fees).
- Remedies (compensatory damages, punitive damages, injunctive relief, civil penalties, reasonable accommodations/modifications for disabilities).
- Duties on landlords/agents (notice requirements, reasonable accommodation procedures, data/reporting).
- Exceptions or exemptions (owner-occupied buildings with small number of units, religious organizations, single-family sale exemptions).
- Who is affected: homebuyers, renters, landlords, property managers, lenders, insurers, developers, local governments, and state housing agency.
- Fiscal impact & implementation: agency workload, estimated staff or IT costs, projected fines revenue effects (cite fiscal note if available).
- Timeline & procedural points: effective date, relation to federal law (Fair Housing Act), whether changes require rulemaking or appropriations, and current legislative status.

Hypothetical example summary (clearly labeled — not the actual bill)
Note: the text below is an illustrative example only.

  • Purpose: HB 29 would create the “Mississippi Fair Housing Act,” expanding state-level protections against housing discrimination and creating an administrative enforcement process in the Mississippi Department of Commerce (or specified agency).
  • Key provisions:
    • Prohibits discrimination in sale, rental, financing, insurance, advertising, and brokerage based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and source of income.
    • Grants an administrative complaint process (agency investigation, conciliation, civil penalties up to $X per violation) and preserves a private right of action in state court with potential compensatory and punitive damages and attorney’s fees.
    • Requires landlords and housing providers to establish reasonable accommodation/modification procedures and to post notice of tenant rights.
    • Exempts small owner-occupied buildings (e.g., owner-occupied buildings with ≤4 units) and certain religious or nonprofit housing.
    • Directs the state housing agency to publish annual enforcement statistics and provide training for local governments and housing providers.
  • Affected parties: renters, tenants with disabilities, landlords, property managers, mortgage lenders, insurers, housing counselors, and local housing authorities.
  • Fiscal impact: would increase administrative workload for the designated state agency (staff hires, case management system) and could generate modest fine revenue; absent a specific fiscal note, costs are unknown.
  • Procedural/timeline: would take effect on and require the agency to adopt implementing rules within X months; status: introduced Aug 27, 2025 — died in committee.

Next steps
- If you want an accurate summary, please paste or upload the Mississippi HB 29 bill text or provide a link.
- If you want me to draft a detailed hypothetical bill text or a draft legislative summary for stakeholder review, say so and I’ll produce it (I can include sample statutory language, fiscal assumptions, or an enforcement cost estimate).

Which would you like?

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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