New Mississippi laws taking effect January 1, 2025
4 laws take effect January 1, 2025.
Of the 736 bills enacted since 2025, 735 have an effective date and 1 doesn't yet (listed below). A law here takes effect that day by its main provisions; parts of a staggered act may take effect on other dates.
Updated Oct 31, 2026 at 11:39 a.m. EDT.
Taxes (4)
HB 1201 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Income tax and ad valorem tax; create incentives for developers to improve tax forfeited, blighted properties in MS.
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Published by the legislature:
January 1, 2025
.Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
HB 1644 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Equipment used in the deployment of broadband technologies; revise certain provisions regarding tax exemptions.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature:
January 1, 2025
.Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
HB 1878 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Ad valorem tax; specify provisions for determining the true value of rural structures.
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Published by the legislature:
January 1, 2025
.HB 1901 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
Qualified equity investment tax credits; increase maximum allowed and extend date after which MDA will not allocate.
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Published by the legislature:
January 1, 2025
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Enacted, but not yet dated (1)
These laws' texts tie their dates to something outside the legislative record (Contingent), or not enough is recorded yet to give one (Unresolved). They may take effect January 1, 2025 too; the record doesn't say.
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- SB 2290ContingentOne Door Policy; create study committee to evaluate reauthorization of WIOA policy.Earlier of passage or the effective date of the reauthorized federal Workforce and Innovation Opportunity Act, if it creates new pilot comprehensive innovation demonstration program opportunities for which Mississippi qualifies