Toppings news from around the state:

• One of House Speaker Philip Gunn’s highest priorities for this year’s Legislative session took the first step to becoming law. With a 102-13 vote, the House passed a campaign finance reform bill. A few things the bill would require: itemizing credit card expenditures, no payments to family members unless they’re working for the campaign in some way, no fundraising during the Legislative session, and no pocketing left-over campaign funds after leaving office.

• Facing an $89 million shortfall through the first six months of the fiscal year, Gov. Phil Bryant has ordered cuts for most of the state’s agencies. Thursday, Bryant reduced the budget by $51 million, less that one percent of the state’s budget.

•  Jackson Public School District is expanding its search for a new superintendent. JPS Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to conduct the national search using a firm specializing in this work.

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This Week: Campaign finance reform, budget cuts, superintendent search

by Gabriel Austin, Mississippi Today
January 13, 2017

<h1>This Week: Campaign finance reform, budget cuts, superintendent search</h1> <p class="byline">by Gabriel Austin, Mississippi Today <br />January 13, 2017</p> <p>Toppings news from around the state:</p> <p>• One of House Speaker Philip Gunn’s highest priorities for this year’s Legislative session took the first step to becoming law. With a 102-13 vote, the House passed a campaign finance reform bill. A few things the bill would require: itemizing credit card expenditures, no payments to family members unless they’re working for the campaign in some way, no fundraising during the Legislative session, and no pocketing left-over campaign funds after leaving office.</p> <p>• Facing an $89 million shortfall through the first six months of the fiscal year, Gov. Phil Bryant has ordered cuts for most of the state’s agencies. Thursday, Bryant reduced the budget by $51 million, less that one percent of the state’s budget.</p> <p>• &nbsp;Jackson Public School District is expanding its search for a new superintendent. JPS Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to conduct the national search using a firm specializing in this work.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org/2017/01/13/this-week-campaign-finance-reform-state-budget-cuts-and-the-search-for-a-superintendent/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org&quot;&gt;Mississippi Today&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.&lt;img src=&quot;https://cdn.mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/06074517/MT_icon-logo-favicon-1-200x200.png&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=42565&amp;amp;ga4=G-VSX4B701MS&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://mississippitoday.org/2017/01/13/this-week-campaign-finance-reform-state-budget-cuts-and-the-search-for-a-superintendent/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/mississippitoday.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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