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House debates Mississippi Development Authority appropriation; amendments to target site‑development money for high‑poverty counties fail
Summary
Multiple amendments aiming to direct Mississippi Development Authority site‑development grants toward high‑poverty or underinvested counties failed on the House floor; the main appropriation for MDA passed and there was extended floor discussion of economic development equity and site readiness.
The House debated the appropriation for the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) and considered a series of floor amendments that would have constrained or redirected MDA site‑development grants toward high‑poverty counties or counties certified as workforce‑ready. All four amendments offered by a member arguing for targeted investments in historically underinvested counties failed on recorded votes.
Appropriators explained the MDA appropriation as the product of negotiations with the Senate and described modest increases for insurance, a small number of new positions and escalations in special fund authority. The chair asked members to reject the conditional amendments, arguing that appropriators from both chambers had reached agreement after multi‑week…
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