MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1997 Regular Session

To: Appropriations

By: Representatives Simmons (37th), Flaggs, Denny, Perry, Short, Watson

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING THE EXPENSES AND PROVIDING CONTINGENT FUNDS FOR THE LEGISLATURE, THE EXPENSES OF THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE BUDGET OFFICE, THE EXPENSES OF THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND EXPENDITURE REVIEW, THE EXPENSES OF THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT COMMITTEE, THE MISSISSIPPI AGRIBUSINESS COUNCIL, PAYING THE MONTHLY EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE, PAYING THE STATE'S SHARE OF VARIOUS ASSESSMENTS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1998. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying salaries, mileage, insurance, matching funds and the daily expense allowance of the members of the Legislature for the Regular Session of 1997 and providing contingent funds for the House of Representatives and Senate for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 1998, as follows:

For salaries, mileage, insurance,

matching funds and daily

expense allowance of members

of the House of Representatives $3,089,807.00

For Contingent Fund for the

House of Representatives $3,873,691.00

Out of the above amount appropriated for the Contingent Fund for the House of Representatives, not more than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) shall be expended for defraying the expenses of and for the use of the members of the Mississippi Commission on Interstate Cooperation, as created under Section 5-5-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972.

For salaries, mileage, insurance,

matching funds and daily

expense allowance of members

of the Senate $1,352,346.00

For Contingent Fund for the Senate $3,083,174.00

Out of the above amount appropriated for the Contingent Fund for the Senate, not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) shall be expended for defraying the expenses of and for the use of the members of the Mississippi Commission on Interstate Cooperation, as created under Section 5-5-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972.

For the joint legislative operations of the House of

Representatives and the Senate $ 899,100.00

For the expenses of the Joint Legislative

Budget Office $1,948,392.00

For the expenses of the Joint Legislative

Committee on Performance Evaluation

and Expenditure Review $1,700,099.00

For the expenses of the Joint Legislative

Reapportionment Committee $ 104,581.00

The Joint Legislative Reapportionment Committee shall prepare, publish and provide semiannual reports to each member of the Legislature and such reports shall provide a line-by-line detailed accounting of all receipts and expenditures of any and all monies appropriated by the Legislature to the Joint Legislative Reapportionment Committee. Any meetings of the Joint Legislative Reapportionment Committee shall be held in state offices or at publicly-owned facilities.

SECTION 2. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Mississippi Agribusiness Council as created by Section 69-41-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 1998

$ 206,100.00.

For attending meetings of the council, each legislative member shall be paid per diem, a mileage allowance and an expense allowance in the amount authorized by law. However, no per diem, mileage allowance or expense allowance shall be paid for attending meetings of the council while the Legislature is in session, and no per diem, mileage allowance or expense allowance shall be paid without prior approval of the proper committee in the member's respective house.

SECTION 3. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in any special fund in the State Treasury to the credit of the Mississippi Agribusiness Council as created by Section 69-41-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, which is comprised of special source funds collected or otherwise available to the council, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Mississippi Agribusiness Council for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 1998 $ 150,000.00.

SECTION 4. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the monthly expense allowance of the members of the Legislature, as provided in Section 5-1-41, Mississippi Code of 1972, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 1998

$ 1,550,100.00.

SECTION 5. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the state's share of various assessments for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 1998 $ 274,553.00.

Of the funds authorized in this section, the following distribution shall be made:

Southern States Energy Board..........$ 29,077.00

Southern Growth Policies Agreement....$ 24,339.00

Interstate Cooperation................$ 170,737.00

National Conference of Commissioners

on Uniform State Laws...............$ 25,400.00

The Energy Council....................$ 25,000.00

SECTION 7. The money appropriated under the provisions of Sections 1, 2, 4 and 5 shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, and the money appropriated under the provisions of Section 3 shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the proper special fund 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 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1997.