Senate bill would reserve BP millions for Coast
After months of debate over the issue, just one bill regarding how to spend millions in settlement funds from the 2010 BP oil spill made it through committee this session.
Sen. Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, and three other Coast senators sponsored the bill, which would create a new, separate reserve fund for the BP money.
The bill states that the only funds that could be drawn from it “shall be used for projects that will benefit the Mississippi Gulf Coast.”
The bill, which faces a Friday deadline for Senate passage, passed unanimously through the Senate Appropriations committee last week in 33 seconds with no debate.
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