---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Advisory Council; expand membership."
description: "Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Advisory Council; expand membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 2414"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2414 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Accountability", "Efficiency", "Transparency", "Environment Prot", "Cons and Water Res"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhodes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-13T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f64edd79-77b2-49fa-8cbc-5ec34f4f9401"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/Senate_authors/Rhodes.xml"
source_hash: "d16305140e3aef8c26ffd9a88d8d9b5b232425e9468b14b151db3ed8ddc79e56"
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 2414 (2026) — Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Advisory Council; expand membership.

## 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/2026/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2414IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2414PS.htm)
3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/SB/2400-2499/SB2414SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rhodes — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2026-01-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Environment Prot, Cons and Water Res `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2026-02-16T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2026-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-03-13T05:00:00+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/f64edd79-77b2-49fa-8cbc-5ec34f4f9401`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).