Adopted

AMENDMENT NO 2 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO 2 PROPOSED TO

Senate Bill No. 3021

BY: Representative Stringer

     AMEND line 27 by changing "$428,764,806.00" to "$429,430,416.00"

     AMEND FURTHER page 10, lines 306 and 307, by deleting "shall be derived from the Budget Contingency Fund, as created in Section 27-103-301, Mississippi Code of 1972," and inserting in lieu thereof "is provided"

     AMEND FURTHER by inserting a new SECTION 30 and SECTION 31 and renumber succeeding sections, said new sections to read as follows:

     SECTION 30.  Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of Section 2, Nine Hundred Fifteen Thousand Six Hundred Ten Dollars ($915,610.00) shall be derived from the Budget Contingency Fund, as created in Section 27-103-301, Mississippi Code of 1972.

     SECTION 31.  It is the intention of the Legislature, that with the funds provided in this act a salary increase in the amount of Six Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($6,500.00) per full-time equivalent shall be awarded to all nursing faculty of the Institutions of Higher Learning effective July 1, 2006.