HB 1676 Mississippi House · 2026 Regular Session

2024 Local Improvements Project Fund; add a new project to be funded from.

HB 1676 adds a $3,000,000 allocation from the Capital Expense Fund to the 2024 Local Improvements Projects Fund for the Port of Pascagoula's North Rail Connector Project. This bill specifically directs funds to support infrastructure improvements across 20+ Mississippi jurisdictions, including city street paving, courthouse repairs, fire department equipment, hospital facilities, and airport upgrades. The funds will be disbursed by the Department of Finance and Administration per existing appropriation authority. Direct beneficiaries include cities like Columbus, Greenwood, and Kosciusko; counties including Bolivar, Lee, and Webster; and entities like the Port of Pascagoula and local fire departments. The bill does not create new programs but allocates existing state funds to pre-identified local projects.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 19, 2026 Last action Feb 11, 2026

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As Introduced → Current version · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to remove a large funding allocation of $7,074,214.00 to the Board of Supervisors of Hinds County for water system improvements at the Hinds County Criminal Justice Facility. This change reduces the total funding available under the 2024 Local Improvements Projects Fund by that amount. The amendment also reorganized the formatting and page structure of the bill while retaining the vast majority of the original project funding allocations.

Scope change

The bill's scope was reduced by removing one specific funding allocation, but the overall applicability to other projects and entities remains unchanged.

FISCAL

Deleted Section 2, which authorized the State Treasurer to transfer $7,074,214.00 from the Capital Expense Fund to the 2024 Local Improvements Projects Fund for Hinds County water system improvements.

Removed paragraph (md) from Section 1, which allocated $7,074,214.00 to the Board of Supervisors of Hinds County for water system improvements at the Hinds County Criminal Justice Facility.

TECHNICAL

Reformatted the bill header and page numbering to reflect it as a Committee Substitute version, with changes to the title page layout and official document formatting.

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Committee

Feb 11, 2026

Committee

Recommitted to Committee

lower

Feb 3, 2026

Lower · Passed

Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub

lower

Jan 19, 2026

Committee

Referred To Ways and Means

lower

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