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- Mississippi House Medicaid Committee Chairwoman Missy McGee, R-Hattiesburg, left, listens as Drew Snyder, executive director of the Mississippi Division of Medicaid, speaks at the state Capitol, Feb. 7, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. A new "presumptive eligibility" law that takes effect Monday, July 1, 2024, allows earlier Mississippi Medicaid coverage during pregnancy. The law says Medicaid will pay for a pregnant woman’s outpatient medical care up to 60 days while her application for the government-funded insurance program is being considered. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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Mississippi sets new laws on Medicaid during pregnancy, school funding, inheritance and alcohol
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,06/28/24-10:53AM , 312 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is enacting several new laws, including one that says sign language courses may replace foreign language courses for students to earn credit toward high school graduation.

A look at some of the other new laws taking effect on July 1:

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- Reena Evers-Everette, front left, daughter of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, left, welcomes U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, front right, and Mississippi Transportation Commissioner for the Central District Willie Simmons, center, to the home of her father, assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. The house, now the Medgar and Myrlie Evers National Monument, was one of the stops Buttigieg made as he spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, promoting projects that will be helped or will be receiving money from a federal infrastructure act. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Buttigieg tours Mississippi civil rights site and says transportation is key to equity in the US
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,06/21/24-3:21PM , 309 Reads
JACKSON, Miss.
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- Former City of Pearl, Miss., police Officer Michael Christian Green walks out of the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., March 14, 2024, after pleading guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge after authorities said he forced a man he had arrested to lick urine off the floor of a jail cell. Green was sentenced Wednesday, June 12, to one year in federal prison, the maximum penalty for the charge. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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Ex-officer in Mississippi gets 1 year in prison for forcing man to lick urine off jail floor
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Wed,06/12/24-4:57PM , 601 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former Mississippi police officer was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for forcing a man he had arrested to lick urine off the floor of a jail cell.
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- Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch waves to the crowd at a Trump for President rally in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, June 6, 2024. Fitch was named a defendant in a lawsuit filed Friday, June 7, 2024, in federal court over a new Mississippi law requiring users of websites and other digital services to register their age. The suit by the tech industry group NetChoice contends the law will unconstitutionally limit access to online speech for minors and adults. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Mississippi is the latest state sued by tech group over age verification on websites
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,06/07/24-2:14PM , 347 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new Mississippi law requiring users of websites and other digital services to verify their age will unconstitutionally limit access to online speech for minors and adults, a tech industry group says in a lawsuit filed Friday.
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