Mississippi Senate Bill 2710 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on February 12 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-02-12 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

An Act To Provide An Annual Assessment On Nonproducing Mineral Estates That Are Owned By Someone Other Than The Owner Of The Surface Rights Of The Land; To Provide That The Title To The Nonproducing Mineral Estate Shall Revert To The State Of Mississippi Upon Failure Of The Owner To Pay The Assessment For A Period Of Three Years; To Provide That The Owner Of The Surface Rights To The Land May Redeem The Nonproducing Mineral Estate; To Provide The Procedure For Notice And Redemption Of The Nonproducing Mineral Estate; To Provide That Mineral Estates Separated From The Surface Estate Shall Revert To The Owner Of The Surface Estate After Ten Years Of Nonproduction; To Define Nonproduction; To Provide That The Owners Of Such Mineral Estates Shall Have An Exclusive Option To Renew The Agreement Creating The Mineral Estate; And For Related Purposes.

Nonproducing minerals; annual assessment.

Sen. Haskins Montgomery [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-12	Senate	Died In Committee
2015-02-12	Senate	Recommitted to Committee
2015-01-28	Senate	Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub
2015-01-19	Senate	Referred To Energy

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2015/pdf/history/SB/SB2710.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2015/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2710IN.htm
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2015/html/SB/2700-2799/SB2710CS.htm