SB2822 administers Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Funds under the Federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to the Department of Environemtal Quality to create a grant to help government comply with regulations and environmental policy.
The Mississippi State House of Representatives passed SB2822 on March 8, 2022 by a vote of 120 to 2. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the spending of taxpayer money for purposes not authorized under Art. 1 Sec. 8 of the U.S. Constitution tightens the federal-state lockstep on redistribution of income. Additionally, this distributes federal taxpayer dollars into a department that follows unconstitutional federal environmental policy.