Mississippi legislature fights gun restrictions, grocery store wine, pecan theft
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
Posted Feb 03, 2021
Some state senators loosen or remove their face masks when at their desks or if they believe they are sufficiently socially distanced in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Jan. 19, 2021. State Fire Marshals on the other hand maintain their face masks as they follow Ringo the explosive detection dog on his inspection of the chamber. Many legislators are changing some of the ways they conduct business because of newly diagnosed coronavirus cases at the Capitol with a goal of putting more space between people in a building where crowded rooms can be the norm. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP
Icina Lee spends her lunch break jogging across the levee at Tombigbee State Park. A sweeping bill in the state Senate that would have turned control of Tombigbee State Park over to the Lee County Board of Supervisors was paused by the state Senate, Monday. THOMAS WELLS | BUY at PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COM
Lawmakers have paused legislation to privatize some Mississippi state parks and give others away to local governments, saying they need to conduct more research.
The Senate Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Committee instead passed a bill Monday to create a legislative study committee â five members appointed by Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, five by House Speaker Philip Gunn â that would research how best to fix Mississippiâs beleaguered parks system. The legislation now heads to the full Senate for consideration.
JACKSON • A Northeast Mississippi lawmaker has introduced a sweeping proposal to privatize at least 10 Mississippi state parks and offload several others to cities and counties.