HR 34 Mississippi House · 2025 Regular Session

WTVA-Channel 9 Meterology Team; acknowledge critical service of and express continued support to maintain local operations.

This resolution (HR 34) acknowledges the critical weather coverage provided by WTVA-Channel 9's meteorology team in Northeast Mississippi, particularly their life-saving reporting during the March 2023 Amory tornado. It encourages continued community support for the station and urges Allen Media Broadcasting to maintain its locally staffed weather operations. The resolution recognizes the team's national awards, community reliance on their region-specific forecasts, and the 35,000-signature petition that prompted the station to reverse plans to eliminate local meteorologists. As a non-binding resolution, it expresses legislative support but does not create new laws or funding.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 13, 2025 Last action Feb 18, 2025
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As Introduced Current version · 4 edits
MODERATE
The bill was renumbered from HR 34 to HR 34 (As Adopted by House) and formatted for official adoption. The substantive content of the resolution remains unchanged, acknowledging WTVA-Channel 9's meteorology team and their critical role in local weather coverage. The only notable change is the addition of a 'BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED' clause directing copies of the resolution to specific recipients, which was present in the original version but appears to have been reformatted rather than altered in substance.
TECHNICAL

Document formatting and numbering changed from 'As Introduced' to 'As Adopted by House' version with updated page headers and footers

Resolution text was reformatted with different line breaks and character encoding (some 'WHEREAS' clauses show garbled characters in the adopted version)

Original header information including Mississippi Legislature Regular Session 2025 and sponsor list was reformatted rather than removed

New page headers and footers with 'HR26/R2348' identifiers and official adoption markings were added

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
5
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Feb 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
Adopted
lower
Feb 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
Title Suff Do Be Adopted
lower
Feb 13, 2025
Committee
Referred To Rules
lower
0 primary · 6 co-sponsors

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