Amendment_Report_for

SECTION 1. In addition to all other sums heretofore appropriated, 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 providing 51 (fifty-one) school health nurses for the Mississippi Department of Health for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007... ................................................$ 1,275,000.00.

SECTION 2. In addition to all other sums herein appropriated, the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the Mississippi Department of Health, for the purpose of purchasing an anti-viral vaccine for the Pandemic Flu, for the period beginning upon passage of this act and through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008............................................. $ 4,930,201.00.

SECTION 3. In addition to all other sums herein appropriated, the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, for the purpose of providing additional funding for the East Mississippi State Hospital, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007.......

............................................. $ 3,000,000.00.

SECTION 4. In addition to all other sums herein appropriated, the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, for the purpose of funding Medicaid match at the community mental health centers, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007$ 2,000,000.00.

SECTION 5. In addition to all other sums herein appropriated, the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, for the purpose of providing funding for a group home for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007......................... $ 2,000,000.00.

SECTION 6. In addition to all other sums herein appropriated, the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the Mississippi Tort Claims Board, for the purpose of purchasing property insurance on state property as required by the Stafford Act, Section 311, Paragraph 5154 and 44 CFR 206.252 and 206.253, and House Bill No. 4, Fifth Extraordinary Session of 2005, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007............................................. $ 12,000,000.00.

SECTION 7. In addition to all other sums herein appropriated, the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund, not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the Governor's Office-Division of Medicaid, for the purpose of funding a temporary program to provide nonemergency transportation to locations for necessary dialysis services for end stage renal disease patients who are sixty-five (65) years of age or older or are disabled as determined under Section 1614(a)(3) of the federal Social Security Act, as amended, whose income did not exceed one hundred thirty-five percent (135%) of the nonfarm official poverty level as defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and whose eligibility was covered under the former category of eligibility known as PLADS (Poverty Level Aged and Disabled), for the period beginning upon passage of this act and through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008............................................. $ 3,900,000.00.

SECTION 8. In addition to all other sums heretofore appropriated, 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 providing four law clerks, two judicial assistants and special judges for Katrina related cases for the Mississippi Supreme Court for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007 .........$ 628,286.00.

SECTION 9. In addition to all other sums heretofore appropriated, the following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the Mississippi Supreme Court which is comprised of special source funds collected by, or otherwise available to, the Court for the purpose of providing appropriation authority for the Administrative Office of Courts to fund local personnel salary increases for the fiscal year ending

June 30, 2007.....................................$ 200,000.00.

SECTION 10. The money herein appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the proper fund or funds as set forth in this act, 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 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.