JACKSON (AP) — A state office building could soon be named for a Mississippi congressman who died in 2015.
Legislators have passed the final version of Senate Bill 2564 , to name the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality headquarters as the Patrick Alan Nunnelee building. It is in downtown Jackson.
Nunnelee, who went by Alan, was a Republican from Tupelo. He spent 16 years in the state Senate starting in 1995, eventually becoming chairman of the Appropriations Committee.
He unseated a Democratic incumbent in north Mississippi's 1st Congressional District in November 2010, and took office in January 2011.
Nunnelee died in February 2015 after experiencing several months of health problems, including a brain tumor. He was 56.
Gov. Phil Bryant is expected to sign the bill, which would become law July 1.