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HB 402

"Mississippi Joint Municipal Law Enforcement Act"; create.

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Bryant Clark

HB 402 packets span unrelated state bills; no Mississippi Joint Municipal Law Enforcement Act text is included, so no single bill to summarize.

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Bill Summary · HB 402

Summary — HB 402 (packet provided)

Note up front: the materials you provided include multiple distinct bills from different states that all carry the identifier “HB 402.” There is no bill text in the packet that corresponds to a titled “Mississippi Joint Municipal Law Enforcement Act.” Below I summarize the actual items contained in the documents you supplied, note the procedural status you provided, and identify missing information and recommended next steps.

Key procedural facts (from your header)

  • Bill number: HB 402
  • Title claimed: “Mississippi Joint Municipal Law Enforcement Act” (no supporting text in the packet)
  • Status: Died in Committee (per your header)
  • Introduced: November 12, 2024
  • Classification: bill; subject areas: Appropriations A, Judiciary A

Because the full Mississippi bill text was not included, the remainder of this summary covers the actual HB 402 variants in your documents.

Items actually contained in the packet (concise summaries)

  1. Maryland — Anne Arundel County Board of Education — Student Member Scholarship Increase

    • Purpose: Increase the scholarship granted to a student member who completes a full term from $8,000 to $15,000.
    • Effective date: June 1, 2025.
    • Fiscal impact: No state fiscal effect; Anne Arundel County expenditures increase by $7,000 annually beginning FY2025.
    • Status: Passed (chaptered as CH. 7, approved April 8, 2025) in Maryland documents.

  2. Alabama — “Reviewing Urban-Rural Asymmetries in Legislation (RURAL) Act”

    • Purpose: Require the Legislative Services Agency (or equivalent) to prepare a Rural Impact Report on any bill when requested by a legislator.
    • Required analyses: economic/social/regulatory impacts on rural communities; specific consequences for farmers and agricultural businesses; localized effects by legislative district; comparative rural/suburban/urban analysis; effects on rural school districts (funding, enrollment, technology access, teacher workforce, potential closures/ consolidations); identification of benefits/costs/unintended consequences.
    • Process/timing: Agency to “endeavor” to complete report within 30 days; public posting on legislature website; effective Oct 1, 2025.
    • Fiscal note (Alabama document): Could increase obligations of Legislative Services Agency by an undetermined amount depending on staff/software needs.

  3. Georgia — Renewable Energy Portfolio and Related Provisions

    • Purpose: Add a new part to Title 46 establishing legislative intent and directing the Public Service Commission to set renewable energy sources and portfolio standard goals for electric service providers.
    • Key provisions: Commission to set annual goals by July 1, 2026 (goals not to exceed 20% of annual net electricity sales); incorporate renewable resources in integrated resource plans; require reporting and rulemaking; definitions for renewable sources (wind, solar, low-impact hydropower, biomass, etc.).
    • Implementation: Commission to evaluate levelized costs through 2030 and installed capacity through 2050; rules for voluntary reporting and annual reporting by electric service providers.

  4. Hawaii — Juror Qualification Form Changes

    • Purpose: Amend statutes to allow the clerk to make juror qualification forms available by formats other than mail, let courts determine delivery/return formats, and remove notarization requirement.
    • Effective date: July 1, 2025.

  5. Illinois — Technical Amendment to Freedom From Location Surveillance Act

    • Purpose: Technical change in short title (fix typographical duplication “the the”).
    • Procedural data: Prefiled/introduced Jan 9, 2025.

  6. Kentucky — Department for Business and Community Development update (excerpt)

    • Purpose: Amend KRS language on the Cabinet for Economic Development and the Department for Business and Community Development; organization and positions for coal-impacted areas (project managers), etc. (excerpted).

Overall observations and impacts

  • The packet contains multiple unrelated HB 402 bills from several states; each bill addresses very different policy domains (education scholarships, rural impact reporting, renewable energy standards, jury procedures, etc.).
  • For the Alabama-style RURAL Act, the substantive impact would be greater legislative analysis capacity and potentially increased administrative costs to produce timely, district-level rural impact assessments.
  • For the Maryland scholarship bill, the fiscal impact is straightforward (+$7,000/year to Anne Arundel County).
  • For Georgia’s renewable portfolio standards, impacts would be on electric service providers’ planning and reporting, and may affect renewable project development incentives and integrated resource planning.
  • No Mississippi “Joint Municipal Law Enforcement Act” text was provided, so no substantive summary can be given for that title.

Recommended next steps

  1. If you want a targeted summary of the Mississippi “Joint Municipal Law Enforcement Act” (HB 402), please provide the bill text or a link to it.
  2. If your intent was to summarize one of the specific HB 402 items above, tell me which state/version and I will expand the summary (legal text, affected parties, fiscal/accountability implications, and timeline).
  3. If you want a consolidated comparison or a briefing memo highlighting fiscal impacts across the supplied HB 402 materials, I can produce that.

If you confirm which bill/version you want prioritized, I will produce a focused, 200–500 word summary tailored to that legislation.

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

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