Mississippi House Bill 1650 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 22 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-02-22 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Establish A Grant For The Purpose Of Making Grants To Assist Businesses In Paying Costs Associated With Providing And Expanding Cellular And Broadband Access And Coverage In Rural Counties And Rural Municipalities; To Provide That The Mississippi Development Authority Shall Administer The Grant Program Created In This Act; To Create A Special Fund In The State Treasury, Designated As The "rural Counties And Municipalities Cellular And Broadband Fund"; To Authorize The Issuance Of $15,000,000.00 Of State General Obligation Bonds To Provide Funds For The "rural Counties And Municipalities Cellular And Broadband Fund"; And For Related Purposes.

Bonds; create rural counties and municipalities cellular and broadband grant program and authorize issuance of bonds.

Rep. Bryant Clark [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-22	House	Died In Committee
2017-02-15	House	Referred To Ways and Means

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/history/HB/HB1650.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/1600-1699/HB1650IN.htm