Bryant Sets Special Session To Start June 5

By Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press JACKSON – Republican Gov. Phil Bryant is calling Mississippi legislators back to the Capitol for a special session starting June 5. He is asking them to set the final pieces of the state budget for the year that begins July 1. Legislators ended their three-month regular session in late March without passing budgets for the attorney general’s office or the Department of Transportation. Only the governor can call a special session, and he sets the agenda. “Although the legislative process will determine the length of the session, I anticipate lawmakers will finish their work as quickly as possible, to minimize costs to taxpayers,” Bryant said Tuesday on Facebook in announcing the session. Spending proposals for transportation and the attorney general died because of disputes before a deadline late in the regular session.