Bill Text: MS HB1472 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Child Protection Services; clarify manner of expending federal funds, and when it pays expenses for child in custody when ordered by court.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-30 - Title Suff Do Pass [HB1472 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2025-HB1472-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2025 Regular Session
To: Appropriations C; Appropriations A
By: Representative Oliver
House Bill 1472
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES SHALL EXPEND THOSE FEDERAL FUNDS THAT IT ADMINISTERS ONLY IN A MANNER AUTHORIZED BY THE APPLICABLE SOURCE OF FEDERAL FUNDS; TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN EXPENSES THAT ARE ORDERED TO BE PAID BY A YOUTH COURT FOR A CHILD IN CUSTODY SHALL NOT BE PAID BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY A SOURCE OF FEDERAL FUNDS OR BY A SPECIFIC STATE APPROPRIATION FOR SUCH SERVICES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. (1) The Department of Child Protection Services shall expend those federal funds that it administers only in a manner authorized by the applicable source of federal funds, whether as a match as set forth in Section 43-26-13 or as any other type of expenditure.
(2) Any of the following expenses that are ordered to be paid by a youth court for a child in custody shall not be paid by the Department of Child Protection Services unless authorized by a source of federal funds or by a specific state appropriation for such services:
(a) The cost of medical and other examinations and treatment of a child ordered by the court;
(b) The cost of care and support of a child committed by the court to the legal custody of an individual or a public or private agency other than the Department of Child Protection Services, but the court may order supplemental payments, if such are necessary or desirable for services;
(c) Reasonable compensation for services and related expenses of an attorney appointed by the court, when appointed by the court to represent a child and when appointed by the court to conduct the proceedings;
(d) Reasonable compensation for a guardian ad litem;
(e) The expense of service of summons, notices and subpoenas; travel expenses of witnesses; transportation, subsistence and detention of a child for youth court proceedings; and other like expenses incurred in the proceedings under Chapter 21 of Title 43, Mississippi Code of 1972; and
(f) The cost of therapeutic counseling.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2025.
