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MS SB2927

Bill

Status

Failed

4/1/2015

Primary Sponsor

Brice Wiggins

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Origin

Senate

2015 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Extends the initial term for Jackson County appointees to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau from two years to three years

  • Provides Jackson County additional time to identify and commit appropriate sources of tourism funding as determined by the bureau

  • Hancock County appointees retain the original two-year initial term to secure comparable tourism funding

  • If either county fails to enact funding sources comparable to those in the chapter by the end of their initial term, that county's seats on the bureau will expire

  • Subsequent appointments for both counties, if funding is secured, will follow staggered terms of one, three, and five years, with all future terms being five years

Legislative Description

Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau; give Jackson County additional time to provide tourism funding.

Last Action

Died In Committee

4/1/2015

Committee Referrals

Local and Private3/12/2015

Full Bill Text

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