Bill Text: MS HB525 | 2013 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: MS Industries for the Blind; State Personnel Board not required to approve salary of executive director of.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-03-14 - Approved by Governor [HB525 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2013-HB525-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2013 Regular Session
To: Fees and Salaries of Public Officers; Appropriations
By: Representative Read
House Bill 525
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 43-3-103, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE STATE PERSONNEL BOARD APPROVE THE SALARY SET BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MISSISSIPPI INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND (MIB) FOR THE MIB EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 43-3-103, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
43-3-103. (1) From and after July 1, 1997, the MIB shall be governed by a board of directors hereby created, to consist of four (4) persons appointed by the Governor, and three (3) by the Lieutenant Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, each of whom shall be a qualified elector of the State of Mississippi. The members of the board of directors appointed by the Governor shall include the following:
(a) One (1) legally blind individual;
(b) One (1) educator with expertise in rehabilitation or the field of blindness;
(c) One (1) individual with at least five (5) years' actual experience in finance or a related field;
(d) One (1) individual with at least five (5) years' actual experience in manufacturing or a related field.
The members of the board of directors appointed by the Lieutenant Governor shall include the following:
(a) One (1) legally blind individual;
(b) One (1) individual with at least five (5) years' actual experience in marketing or a related field; and
(c) One (1) individual who is a licensed practicing attorney.
Initial appointments shall be made April 24, 1997. The Governor shall make initial appointments of two (2) members for two (2) years, one (1) member for three (3) years, and one (1) member for four (4) years to be designated at the time of appointment. The Lieutenant Governor shall make initial appointments of one (1) member for two (2) years, one (1) member for three (3) years, and one (1) member for four (4) years to be designated at the time of appointment. Thereafter, the terms of the members shall be for four (4) years and until their successors are appointed and qualified. In the event of a vacancy during the term of office of an incumbent, the appointing authority shall fill such vacancy, for the unexpired portion of the term, by appointing an individual having the same prerequisite qualifications as required for the vacancy being filled.
(2) The board of directors shall organize by selecting annually from its members a chairman and a vice chairman, and may do all things necessary and convenient for carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter. Each member of the board shall receive a per diem as provided in Section 25-3-69, Mississippi Code of 1972, plus travel and reasonable and necessary expenses incidental to the attendance at each meeting as provided in Section 25-3-41, including mileage.
(3) The Lieutenant Governor
may designate the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
and another member of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives may designate the Chairman of the House Committee on Public
Health and * * * Human
Services and another member of the House to attend any meeting of the Board
of Directors of the MIB. The appointing authorities may designate alternate
members from their respective houses to serve when the regular designees are
unable to attend such meetings of the board. Such legislative designees shall
have no jurisdiction or vote on any matter within the jurisdiction of the
board. For attending meetings of the board, such legislators shall receive per
diem and expenses which shall be paid from the contingent expense funds of
their respective houses in the same amounts as provided for committee meetings
when the Legislature is not in session; however, no per diem and expenses for
attending meetings of the board will be paid while the Legislature is in
session. No per diem and expenses will be paid except for attending meetings
of the board without prior approval of the proper committee in their respective
houses.
(4) It shall be the duty of the Board of Directors of MIB to:
(a) Appoint and employ
an executive director who shall be the executive and administrative head of MIB
and who shall serve at the pleasure of the board of directors. The Board of
Directors of MIB shall set the compensation of the executive director * * *.
(b) Make and publish policies, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the terms of this chapter, as may be necessary for the efficient administration and operation of MIB.
(c) Adopt and publish rules and regulations, in its discretion, to establish a policy of sick leave with pay and personal leave with pay for MIB employees and to require that MIB offices be opened and staffed on legal holidays as determined necessary by the board of directors.
(5) There is created a revolving fund in the State Treasury, which shall be used by the Mississippi Industries for the Blind for the purpose of taking advantage of contractual opportunities that would not be available to MIB without those funds and for the purpose of meeting the obligations of those types of contracts. The fund shall consist of monies that are specifically made available by the Legislature for the purpose of the fund. MIB shall not be authorized to expend any monies in the fund until it has received the prior written approval of the Executive Director of the Department of Finance and Administration and the State Treasurer. MIB shall repay to the fund all monies that it expends from the fund, which monies then may be used by MIB for future contractual opportunities and obligations. Monies in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and all interest earned on monies in the fund shall be credited to the fund.
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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2013.
