# Mississippi SC 543: Celebrate 40th Anniversary of CASA of Southeast Mississippi and declare April 2025 as "Child Abuse Awareness Month."

Mississippi SC 543, Celebrate 40th Anniversary of CASA of Southeast Mississippi and declare April 2025 as "Child Abuse Awareness Month.", is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Brice Wiggins (Republican); status failed, last action 2025-04-07 (Died by Other Means) (as of 2026-10-17).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-SC543-2025
- As of: 2026-10-17
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: Mississippi SC 543
- State: Mississippi
- Session: 2025 Regular Session
- Title: Celebrate 40th Anniversary of CASA of Southeast Mississippi and declare April 2025 as "Child Abuse Awareness Month."
- Status: failed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-03-24
- Last action: 2025-04-07, Died by Other Means
- Sponsor: Brice Wiggins (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 5
- Subjects: Rules
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 1 (49 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Brice Wiggins (Republican), Senate
- Cosponsor: Jeremy England (Republican), Senate
- Cosponsor: Hillman Terome Frazier (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Tyler McCaughn (Republican), Senate
- Cosponsor: Joseph M. Seymour (Republican), Senate
- Cosponsor: Benjamin Suber (Republican), Senate

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-04-01 | Senate | Adopted | pass | 49 | 0 |   |

## Actions (5)

- 2025-04-07: Died by Other Means (legislature)
- 2025-04-02: Transmitted To House (Senate)
- 2025-04-01: Adopted (Senate)
- 2025-03-31: Title Suff Do Be Adopted (Senate)
- 2025-03-24: Referred To Rules (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Introduced: [HTML](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SC/SC0543IN.htm), [PDF](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/SC/SC0543IN.pdf)
- As Passed: [HTML](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SC/SC0543PS.htm), [PDF](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/SC/SC0543PS.pdf)

## Related bills

- SB 2517: "MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act" and "Uniform Athletes Agent Act"; bring forward. (signed)
- HB 856: Pharmacy Practice Act; extend repealer on and make various changes to. (signed)
- HB 1341: MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; extend repealer on act and related tax incentives. (signed)
- HB 958: Department of Information Technology Services; revise certain provisions relating to acquisition of technology services. (signed)
- HB 913: Meat labeling; require accurate labeling of meat and nonmeat products by processors, retail and food establishment prior to final sale. (signed)
- HB 920: Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize for supporters of various organizations. (signed)

## Sources
- [As Introduced (HTML)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SC/SC0543IN.htm)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/SC/SC0543IN.pdf)
- [As Passed (HTML)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/SC/SC0543PS.htm)
- [As Passed (PDF)](https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/pdf/SC/SC0543PS.pdf)

## Related
- [SB 2517: "MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act" and "Uniform Athletes Ag…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-SB2517-2025)
- [HB 856: Pharmacy Practice Act; extend repealer on and make various changes to.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB856-2025)
- [HB 1341: MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; extend repealer on act and related tax incent…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB1341-2025)
- [HB 958: Department of Information Technology Services; revise certain provisions relati…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB958-2025)
- [HB 913: Meat labeling; require accurate labeling of meat and nonmeat products by proces…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB913-2025)
- [HB 920: Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize for supporters of various orga…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-HB920-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MS-SC543-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).