Bill Text: MS HB243 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Regional correctional facilities; increase daily amount paid to certain facilities for the housing of state offenders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2021-02-02 - Died In Committee [HB243 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2021-HB243-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2021 Regular Session
To: Corrections; Appropriations
By: Representative Clark
House Bill 243
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-933, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE DAILY FEE FROM $31.00 TO $42.00 THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS PAYS TO ANY REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY FOR THE HOUSING OF STATE OFFENDERS IF SUCH FACILITY HOUSES FEWER THAN 300 STATE OFFENDERS; TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT TO INCLUDE IN THE CONTRACT A CERTAIN ANNUAL INCREASE IN THE CONTRACT PRICE FOR SUCH HOUSING; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 47-5-933, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
47-5-933. The Department of
Corrections may contract for the purposes set out in Section 47-5-931 for a
period of not more than twenty (20) years. The contract * * * shall provide that the Department of
Corrections pay a fee of no * * * less than Thirty-one Dollars ($31.00)
per day for each offender that is housed in the facility; however, if a facility
houses fewer than three hundred (300) offenders who are in the custody of the department,
the department shall pay a fee of no less than Forty-two Dollars ($42.00) per day
for each offender who is in the custody of the department and is housed in such
facility. The Department of Corrections * * * shall include in the contract, as
an inflation factor, a three percent (3%) annual increase in the contract
price. The state shall retain responsibility for medical care for state
offenders to the extent that is required by law; provided, however, the
department may reimburse each facility for contract medical services as
provided by law in an amount not to exceed Six Dollars and Twenty-five Cents
($6.25) per day per offender.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2021.
