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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Environmental Quality; provide additional powers to Executive Director."
+description: "Department of Environmental Quality; provide additional powers to Executive Director."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 2649"
+citation: "Mississippi SB 2649 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Environment Prot", "Cons and Water Res"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["DeLano"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2024-04-19T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b7b6da7-9061-47d9-94a2-ff5df31ec8c4"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/Senate_authors/DeLano.xml"
+source_hash: "da8c8e07fc8367ac7f1407e13ec6918f635e07ef1ca167cc20e292fef6206b32"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ms"]
+---
+
+# Mississippi SB 2649 (2024) — Department of Environmental Quality; provide additional powers to Executive Director.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2649IN.htm)
+2. **Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2649** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/Amendment_Report_for_SB2649.pdf)
+3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2649PS.htm)
+4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/ham/SB2649_H_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
+5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2649SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Concurrence in Amendment From House — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage as Amended — **113–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- DeLano — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Environment Prot, Cons and Water Res;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDP: EP To AC
+- **2024-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2024-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-15T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
+- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-02T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
+- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
+- **2024-04-04T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered (Hobgood-Wilkes, Ford (54th), Porter)
+- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
+- **2024-04-09T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
+- **2024-04-11T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Amend From House
+- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2024-04-15T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2024-04-19T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b7b6da7-9061-47d9-94a2-ff5df31ec8c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
+