Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
6 instruments in Mississippi. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsBars requiring a closing statement for the homestead exemption and spares a conveyance reserving a life estate from reapplication.
Amends Miss. Code 27-33-31, effective from January 1, 2026. Approved five days after HB 1380 amended the same section, and drafted from the text before it, so neither act’s print carries the other’s change.
▲Expands benefitsA claimant behind on state income tax, who was ineligible, becomes eligible, with the exemption applied to the tax debt.
From January 1, 2027, a claimant who failed to comply with the income tax laws is eligible, but the exemption is not deducted; the collector remits the exempted amount to the Department of Revenue against the debt. Also brings Section 27-33-75 forward without HB 420’s age 85 text; bringing a section forward does not amend it, so HB 420 governs.
Sponsor
John Thomas "Trey" Lamar, IIIRepublican, House, District 8
Touches Miss. Code Ann. § 27-33-63 · Miss. Code Ann. § 27-33-51 · Miss. Code Ann. § 27-33-75
▲▼Expands and restrictsA survivor whose age or disability status is unknown keeps the basic exemption without reapplying, but is moved down from the additional exemption to the basic one.
Amends Miss. Code 27-33-31. Where the deceased spouse held an exemption under 27-33-67(2) and the surviving spouse’s age or disability status is unknown, the survivor becomes primary applicant at the basic 27-33-67(1) level. Renames the existing application for an additional exemption as an amended application. Described elsewhere as letting surviving spouses keep eligibility, which is the opposite of its effect on an unknown-status survivor.
Sponsor
John Thomas "Trey" Lamar, IIIRepublican, House, District 8
▲Expands benefitsLowers the age for the full homestead exemption for an honorably discharged veteran from 90 to 85.
Signed and in force, but the age-85 exemption applies only to exemptions claimed in calendar year 2027 and after. A veteran aged 85 to 89 today was not eligible in the window that just closed and becomes eligible in the window that opens January 1, 2027. The filing window is three months long and there is no late filing, so the date is the whole action item. The Department of Revenue homestead page still says 90 while the same agency's legislation summary says 85.
▲Expands benefitsExtends the full homestead exemption to the unremarried surviving spouse of a qualifying veteran aged 90 or older.
Reached the unremarried surviving spouse of a qualifying veteran for exemptions claimed in calendar year 2026 and after, and extended a full exemption to unremarried surviving spouses of homeowners classified as totally disabled under federal law. HB 420 carries the spouse provision forward onto the age-85 version from 2027.
=No change to benefitsThe student still pays the resident rate; the difference is now met by a Yellow Ribbon scholarship instead of being waived.
Amends Miss. Code 37-103-25(2)(a). A nonresident veteran or Title 38 beneficiary who is not a covered individual under 38 U.S.C. 3679(c) but qualifies for Yellow Ribbon is charged nonresident tuition where the institution’s Yellow Ribbon scholarship brings the cost to the resident rate; all other such students pay the resident rate except in a professional school or college.
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