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House adopts multiple conference reports, approves ARPA reporting changes and several transfer measures
Summary
On its final day, the House approved multiple conference reports and bills including changes to ARPA reporting and sweeps to a MDOT maintenance fund, a Gulf Coast restoration match change, a multi-section transfer bill, and several other conference reports. Most of the measures passed with lopsided or unanimous votes.
The Mississippi House of Representatives adopted a series of conference reports and bills on the final day of the 2025 regular session, approving measures affecting Gulf Coast restoration fund matching rules, use and reporting of ARPA funds, multiple intra-state transfers, and other legislative items. Several of the bills passed unanimously or with large majorities.
Key measures recorded in the House journal and floor record included a change to Gulf Coast Restoration Fund matching rules (House Bill 11‑26), language clarifying ARPA reporting and an automatic sweep mechanism into the ARPA MDOT maintenance project fund where subgrantees fail to provide consecutive reports (House Bill 11‑27), and a large transfer and fund-creation conference report (Senate Bill 28‑40) that moved money among capital and trust funds and established several new funds.
House Bill 11‑26 (Gulf Coast Restoration Funds conference report) reduced the local match barrier for municipalities and counties by making the match the lesser of 20% of the award or the value of one mill on all taxable property in the county…
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