Bill Text: MS HB229 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Appropriation; MDOC to pay regional facilities $34.00 per day for each state inmate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2021-02-24 - Died In Committee [HB229 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2021-HB229-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2021 Regular Session
To: Corrections; Appropriations
By: Representative Clark
House Bill 229
AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING TO THE REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES WITH WHICH THE DEPARTMENT HAS A CONTRACT TO HOUSE STATE OFFENDERS A FEE IN THE AMOUNT OF $34.00 PER INMATE PER DAY IN THE REGIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2022.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. The following sum, or so much of it as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Mississippi Department of Corrections for the purpose of paying to the regional correctional facilities with which the department has a contract to house state offenders a fee in the amount of Thirty-four Dollars ($34.00) per inmate per day in the regional facilities for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022..................
..................................................$ 48,847,950.00.
SECTION 2. The money appropriated by this act shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer; and the State Fiscal Officer shall issue his warrants upon requisitions signed by the proper person, officer or officers in the manner provided by law.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2022.
