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Senate clears legislation letting school boards convey or limit mineral rights for imminent economic projects
Summary
Lawmakers approved a measure that allows school districts, with state-level coordination, to convey mineral rights or agree not to pursue them for 16th-section lands when an economic development project is imminent. Supporters said the change is time-sensitive; critics pressed for clarity on "imminent."
The Mississippi Senate on a suspended‑rules vote adopted legislation that authorizes school districts, in coordination with the state superintendent and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (or other designated agency), to convey mineral rights or enter perpetual agreements to not develop mineral rights on 16th-section lands when an economic-development project is imminent.
Senator Boyle, who explained the strike-all, said the measure had…
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