MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1997 Regular Session

To: Education; Appropriations

By: Senator(s) Hall, Burton, Ferris

Senate Bill 2875

AN ACT TO AMEND HOUSE BILL NO. 1630, 1996 REGULAR SESSION, TO TRANSFER AN AMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING $1.5 MILLION FROM MINIMUM EDUCATION FUNDS TO FUND THE EDUCABLE CHILD PROGRAM AND TO TRANSFER AN AMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING $3.6 MILLION FROM MINIMUM EDUCATION FUNDS TO FUND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT STUDENT LEVEL DATABASE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997.  

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

SECTION 1. House Bill No. 1630, 1996 Regular Session, is amended as follows:

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, to the State Department of Education for the support and maintenance of the common schools of Mississippi and for the Minimum Education Program for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and ending June 30, 1997, as follows:

For the support and maintenance

of the common schools

(Common School Fund) $ 5,000,000.00

An additional sum, to be known as

the Minimum Education Program Fund,

to be disbursed by the State Department

of Education in compliance with the laws

enacted at the Extraordinary Session

of 1953, as amended $ 952,384,861.00

Total $ 957,384,861.00

Of any available State General Funds appropriated under the provisions of this act, the State Department of Education may transfer an amount not to exceed One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00) to Fund No. 2201 for the purpose of funding the Educable Child Program; and an amount not to exceed Three Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,600,000.00) to Fund No. 3203 for the purpose of funding the school district student level database. Such transfers shall not reduce any allotments otherwise due to a school district as required under the Minimum Education Program formula. The State Department of Education is hereby authorized to escalate the appropriate budget and/or fund for any transfer made which is authorized in this section.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.