by Clay Chandler Published: March 1,2013
Tags: Dick Hall, highway, Joey Fillingane, Robert Johnson, transportation
Two bills that create new revenue for the construction and maintenance of Mississippi’s roads and highways died last week in committee. A bill filed by Rep. Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, would have increased the current 18 cent per gallon tax on gasoline. It died in the House Ways and Means Committee. A Senate bill authored by [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: August 5,2012
Tags: Cindy Hyde-Smith, Joey Fillingane, Mississippi Trade Mart, State Fair Commission
Early in the last legislative session, Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Cindy Hyde-Smith asked Sen. Joey Fillingane to file a bill that would allow for private advertising to appear on buildings at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds. Fillingane, a Sumrall Republican, did just that, the bill cleared the Capitol and became law July 1. Supporters now [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 31,2012
Tags: Alcorn County, Catch-A-Dream Foundation, Joey Fillingane, Mississippi, Mississippi Bow Hunters Association, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Golf Association, Mississippi State University, Sisters With A Throttle Motorcycle Club, Southern Pines Animal Shelter, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Tuskegee Airmen
JACKSON — Jerry Latch isn’t interested in shelling out extra money to express himself with a car tag promoting a particular group or cause, but he knows plenty of people who do. “My wife has a specialty tag of some kind, but I don’t know what it is,” Latch said Wednesday from the shoe store [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: February 12,2012
Tags: Chancellor Denise Owens, Democrat, Department of Revenue, Derrick Surrette, Ed Morgan, Finance Committee, Gov. Phil Bryant, Haley Barbour, HATTIESBURG, Hinds County Chancery Court, House Ways and Means Chairman, Joe Bloun, Joey Fillingane, Land Appraisal Manual, MAS, Mississippi, Mississippi Association of Supervisors, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Municipal League, Moss Point, Newton, Percy Watson, Politics, republican, Section 42, Sen. Terry Burton, Senate Finance Committee, State Tax Commission, Sumrall, Tommy Robertson
A key hearing this week in Hinds County Chancery Court could go a long way toward changing how tax assessors calculate the tax liability for Section 42 Housing Developments. The Mississippi Association of Supervisors, the Mississippi Municipal League and dozens of towns and cities have sued the Department of Revenue, in an attempt to force [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: March 20,2011
Tags: David Armstrong, Jimmy Smith, Joey Fillingane, MBJ FEATURE, Preston Sullivan
A bill that seeks to curtail the activities of rogue athlete agents and expand Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s power to investigate them is headed to conference committee. House Bill 1190 was one piece of Hosemann’s business reform legislative package. At the center of the disagreement between the House and Senate is each chamber’s definition [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: February 13,2011
Tags: Delbert Hosemann, Joey Fillingane, MBJ FEATURE, Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
Electronically accessible government records have spread slowly across Mississippi, as only a handful of counties that could afford to do so have implemented the systems necessary to provide them. One of the parts of Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s business reform legislative package would set guidelines for storing those electronic documents, and at the same [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: October 31,2010
Tags: Dan Turner, Delbert Hosemann, Farm Bureau, Haley Barbour, Joey Fillingane, Matt Steffey
On Oct. 22, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann certified that Farm Bureau’s petition to eliminate the use of eminent domain for private development had enough signatures for the initiative to appear on the statewide ballot in 2011. Hosemann’s certification amounts to an administrative ruling, and if Mississippi’s rules for administrative appeals apply, any legal challenge [...] [...]
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