Mississippi Senate Bill 2249 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 5 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Enact The Mississippi Act To Prohibit The Contamination Of Clean Soils With So-called Forever Chemicals; To Define Relevant Terms; To Allow The Mississippi Air And Water Pollution Control Commission To Require Individuals Licensed To Discharge Wastewater To Sample The Wastewater And Report The Sample To The Commission; To Prohibit The Commission From Issuing New Licenses To Apply Or Spread Septage; To Allow The Commission To Revoke Licenses If Levels Of Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Exceed Acceptable Amounts; To Establish Parameters For The Application Or Spreading Of Sludge And Septage; To List Exceptions To The Parameters Established; To Require The Mississippi Air And Water Pollution Control Commission To Develop A Plan For Prohibiting The Land Application Of Septage; And For Related Purposes.

Environmental protection; prohibit contamination of clean soil with "forever chemicals."

Sen. Hillman Frazier [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-05	Senate	Died In Committee
2024-02-05	Senate	Referred To Environment Prot, Cons and Water Res

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/history/SB/SB2249.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2249IN.htm