Today is the last day committees in the Mississippi Legislature can act on bills presented by their colleagues across the hall. Effectively, that means any bills stuck in committees not scheduled to meet today are dead. That includes SB 2623, a bill proposing to make torturing or maiming cats or dogs a felony.

Lawmakers referred the bill, which passed in the Senate last month, to the House Agriculture and Judicial B committees for additional work, reports WDAM. The Agriculture Committee is not scheduled to meet today, effectively killing the bill.