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Administrative Procedures
MISSISSIPPI ADMINISTRATIVE BULLETIN
The Mississippi Administrative Procedures Law designates the Mississippi Secretary of State's Office
as the official registrar for the rules of all state agencies and as the publisher of the
Mississippi Administrative Bulletin. Currently, more than 120 state agencies file their
agency procedures and rules with the Secretary of State's Office. Each state agency proposes its
own rules and regulations, seeks public comment on the proposed changes, and ultimately adopts the
final rules or regulations. This process usually takes several months.
The public, which is often affected by these procedures, has an important role in this process.
Citizens can voice their opinions regarding proposed regulations by writing and providing comments to
the state agencies. However, citizens cannot comment on new rules or changes to existing rules
without knowing that changes have been proposed. By entering the agency name in the space below,
one can access all proposed rule changes and new rules that have been filed by that agency for the
month selected, including a brief summary of each filling. You may also retrieve the Notice
of Filing as well as the full text of the proposed or final rules.
The Secretary of State's Office does not participate in a state agency's decision-making process when
it proposes administrative rule changes. The final decision about whether to implement a new
rule or changes to an existing rule is entirely up to the agency making the proposal. If you
need more information about a particular agency proposal, or wish to make
comments, please call or write the agency contact person listed
in the Notice provided with the filing. Please do not forward comments
to the Secretary of State's Office.
Note: Select either by agency or by keywords linked to an agency. If selecting by agency, you may also include related agencies by marking the check box. If both agency and keyword are selected, keyword will be ignored.
Date range may be limited by year; year and month; or year, month and day.
If a day exceeds the last day of a month the last day of the month will be
used. Currently this database does not contain information prior to July 1, 2005, therefore any date request prior to July, 2005 will be limited to the last half of 2005. If a month is omitted but the day is included, the current month will be assumed.
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