MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1998 Regular Session

To: Ways and Means

By: Representative Barnett (116th)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 75-76-129, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF THE STATE'S SHARE OF GAMING REVENUES THAT IS DIVERTED FOR USE BY THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR CERTAIN GAMING COUNTIES INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS; TO DELETE THE JULY 1, 2012, DATE AFTER WHICH MONIES FROM THE STATE'S SHARE OF GAMING REVENUES THAT IS DIVERTED TO THE GAMING COUNTIES INFRASTRUCTURE FUND CEASES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. 

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

SECTION 1. Section 75-76-129, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

75-76-129. On or before the last day of each month all taxes, fees, interest, penalties, damages, fines or other monies collected by the State Tax Commission during that month under the provisions of this chapter, with the exception of (a) the local government fees imposed under Section 75-76-195, and (b) an amount equal to Four Million One Hundred Sixty-seven Thousand Dollars ($4,167,000.00), of the revenue collected pursuant to the fee imposed under Section 75-76-177(1)(c), or an amount equal to twenty-five percent (25%) of the revenue collected pursuant to the fee imposed under Section 75-65-177(1)(c), whichever is the greater amount, shall be paid by the State Tax Commission to the State Treasurer to be deposited in the State General Fund. The local government fees shall be distributed by the State Tax Commission pursuant to Section 75-76-197. An amount equal to Four Million One Hundred Sixty-seven Thousand Dollars ($4,167,000.00) of the revenue collected during that month pursuant to the fee imposed under Section 75-76-177(1)(c) shall be deposited by the State Tax Commission into the bond sinking fund created in Section 65-39-3. The revenue collected during that month pursuant to the fee imposed under Section 75-76-177(1)(c) that is in excess of Four Million One Hundred Sixty-seven Thousand Dollars ($4,167,000.00), but is less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount of revenue collected during that month, shall be deposited into the State Highway Fund to be used exclusively for the reconstruction and maintenance of highways of the State of Mississippi.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1998.