Mississippi House · District 64
Shanda Yates
Where they sit
Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
Shanda Yates's seat is marked. Seats run from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right), by contested floor votes. Color shows how often each member crosses party lines toward the middle on votes that divide the parties: solid blue or red means almost never, and purple means on at least 1 in 5 of those votes. Gray seats are members too new to score. How these numbers work
The scores
How these numbers work →Each tick is a current member, by party; the dot is Shanda Yates, shown with the Republicans they vote with most often.
Not in either party, so this is how often they voted with most Republicans on party-line votes, the party they side with more often.
Each tick is a current member, by party; the dot is Shanda Yates, shown with the Republicans they vote with most often.
Bills
The bills Shanda Yates sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.
| Statewide | Local and private | |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 41 | 0 |
| Passed both chambers | 9 | 0 |
| Became law | 9 | 0 |
| Vetoed by the Governor | 0 | 0 |
Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 15 of 120 in the House (tied with 1 other)
A bill's sponsors are its principal authors, as the Legislature lists them; co-authors aren't counted. Local and private bills (for one county, city or district) are counted and shown apart, not ranked.
Bills that passed both chambers
| Bill | Type | Result | Final action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1677 (2026 Regular Session) Metro Jackson Water Authority Act; create |
Statewide | Became law | April 8, 2026 |
| HB 1395 (2026 Regular Session) School districts; revise certain provisions regarding sale or lease of unused property |
Statewide | Became law | April 8, 2026 |
| HB 1404 (2026 Regular Session) Fraudulent Utility Conversion; create crime when landlord fails to pay utilities and tenants' utilities are interrupted |
Statewide | Became law | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 1203 (2025 Regular Session) Camping; prohibit on public property |
Statewide | Became law | April 17, 2025 |
| HB 1201 (2025 Regular Session) Income tax and ad valorem tax; create incentives for developers to improve tax forfeited, blighted properties in MS |
Statewide | Became law | April 17, 2025 |
| HB 1459 (2025 Regular Session) CCID; authorize Supreme Court Justice to appoint full-time and part-time judges |
Statewide | Became law | April 2, 2025 |
| HB 1197 (2025 Regular Session) The Safe Solicitation Act; create to regulate issuance of solicitation permits |
Statewide | Became law | March 21, 2025 |
| HB 1487 (2024 Regular Session) Capitol Complex Improvement District; revise boundaries of |
Statewide | Became law | May 9, 2024 |
| HB 1644 (2024 Regular Session) Ambulance services providers; contracts with to provide exclusively in county or city must allow other providers to respond when necessary |
Statewide | Became law | April 17, 2024 |
Budget projects
Mississippi's appropriation bills don't say which legislator asked for an item, so there's no budget figure for Mississippi legislators.
Contested votes where they split
6 against the Speaker; 9 against most Republicans.
Every roll call
How Shanda Yates voted on each of the 2,367 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.
| Date | Vote | Their vote | Most Republicans | Speaker | Yeas–nays |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Contested and party-line votes link to their own pages; the rest link to the official record.
Contact, committees and caucuses
Contact
- Official page
- billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
- syates@house.ms.gov
- Capitol office
- State Capitol 400 High St., Jackson, MS 39201
601-359-3770 - District office
- P.O. Box 1018, Jackson, MS 39215
Committees
- Judiciary A Vice chair
- Apportionment and Elections
- Conservation and Water Resources
- Constitution
- Municipalities
- State Affairs
Contact details and committee assignments from Open States' data on the Mississippi Legislature, which it collects from the chambers' websites, as of Oct. 15, 2026.
Source: the Mississippi Legislature's roll-call records, Jan. 2, 2024 to July 16, 2026. How these numbers work · Corrections