Bill Text | History of Actions | Background | Title |
Description: Environmental protection; require integrators of swine cafo's to be co-permittee and jointly an severally liable.
Bill Text: [Introduced]
| 1 | 02/21/00 | (S) | Referred To Environment Prot, Cons and Water Res;Agriculture | |
| 2 | 03/07/00 | (S) | Died In Committee |
| Effective date | Passage | |
| Disposition | Dead | |
| Deadline | General Bill/Constitutional Amendment | |
| Revenue | No | |
| 3/5ths vote required | No |
Senate Committees:
Principal Author: Dawkins
Code Section: A 049-0017-0029
Title: AN ACT TO CONFORM TO THE UNIFIED NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS PROPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; TO AMEND SECTION 49-17-29, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT PERSONS WHO EXERCISE SUBSTANTIAL CONTROL OVER A SWINE CONCENTRATED FEEDING OPERATION MUST BE A CO-PERMITTEE; TO DEFINE "SUBSTANTIAL CONTROL"; TO PROVIDE THAT SUCH PERSONS SHALL BE JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY LIABLE FOR VIOLATIONS AND POLLUTION FROM SUCH OPERATION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
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