Lawmakers have passed a bill that would award over $50 million in BP settlement funds to six counties in the Mississippi Gulf Coast over a decade after the company spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Senate Bill 3047, which was authored by Senate Appropriations Chairman Briggs Hopson,.
Lawmakers are now expecting that this year’s legislative session will need to be extended for a few additional days, as numerous big-ticket bills and budgets are still being discussed in both chambers. At this time, the House has voted to add two days to the current legislative session so the.
JACKSON — Facing a hard Monday night deadline, legislative leaders signaled they were close to reaching an agreement over how much money the state will spend on public K-12 education.
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