REPORT OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

MR. PRESIDENT AND MR. SPEAKER:

   We, the undersigned conferees, have had under consideration the amendments to the following entitled BILL:

S. B. No. 2495:  Revision of state agency budgets; authorize State Fiscal Officer to make selective cuts up to 10%.

  We, therefore, respectfully submit the following report and recommendation:

  1.  That the House recede from its Amendment No. 1.

  2.  That the Senate and House adopt the following amendment:

     Amend by striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

SECTION 1.  (1)  For the purpose of providing funds to restore a portion of the reductions in allocations of funds to the agencies listed in subsection (2) of this section made by the State Fiscal Officer under Section 27-104-13 during fiscal year 2010, the State Fiscal Officer shall transfer to the Budget Contingency Fund during fiscal year 2010, out of the following enumerated funds, the amounts listed below from each fund:

     AGENCY/FUND                   FUND NO.            AMOUNT

Health Care Expendable Fund          3989         $58,000,000.00

Public Service Commission            3811            5,000,000.00

Department of Education -

     Mississippi Adequate

     Education Program               2230            5,000,000.00

Governor's Office -

     Division of Medicaid            2328           14,000,000.00

TOTAL                                             $82,000,000.00

     (2)  From the funds transferred to the Budget Contingency Fund under subsection (1) of this section, the State Fiscal Officer shall transfer the following specified sums to the agencies listed below:

          AGENCY                                         AMOUNT

District attorneys and staff                      $  1,491,817.00

State Tax Commission                                  1,000,000.00

Education, Department of:

     National Board Certification                     2,036,095.00

Education, Department of:

     Chickasaw Cession counties                       1,126,768.00

Education, Department of:

     Mississippi Adequate Education Program          33,908,173.00

IHL - Ayers funding                                   2,248,369.00

IHL - University of Mississippi Medical Center          750,000.00

IHL - ASU - Agricultural programs                      139,384.00

IHL - MSU - Agricultural and

     Forestry Experiment Station                       267,778.00

IHL - MSU - Cooperative Extension Service              267,777.00

IHL - MSU - Veterinary Medicine, College of            385,784.00

Health, State Department of                             875,000.00

Mental Health, Department of                          4,000,000.00

Corrections, Department of                           16,000,000.00

Human Services, Department of                         2,500,000.00

Rehabilitation Services, Department of                  200,000.00

Military Department                                      61,856.00

Public Safety, Department of:

     Crime Laboratory                                    45,421.00

Public Safety, Department of:

     Highway Safety Patrol Division                   1,765,198.00

Public Safety, Department of:

     Bureau of Narcotics                                 69,947.00

Veterans' Affairs Board                               1,173,727.00

Department of Finance and Administration:

     Property insurance                               7,100,000.00

Department of Finance and Administration:

     Cost allocation due federal government           3,300,000.00

Attorney General:

     Judgments and settlements                        1,286,906.00

TOTAL                                             $ 82,000,000.00

     (3)  The agencies listed in subsection (2) of this section are authorized to escalate their budgets by the respective amounts specified for each agency and expend those sums for the purposes authorized by law, subject to the following provision:

     The Department of Public Safety shall not be authorized to transfer any funds from the budgets of the Crime Laboratory, Highway Safety Patrol Division and the Bureau of Narcotics to any other budget of the department.

SECTION 2.  (1)  During fiscal year 2010, the State Fiscal Officer shall transfer to the Budget Contingency Fund, out of the following enumerated funds, the amounts listed below from each fund:

     AGENCY/FUND                   FUND NO.              AMOUNT

Drug Court Fund                      3060            $  900,000.00

Youth Court Support Fund             3062              800,000.00

TOTAL                                                $1,700,000.00

     (2)  From the funds transferred to the Budget Contingency Fund under subsection (1) of this section, the State Fiscal Officer shall transfer the following specified sums to the agencies listed below:

     AGENCY                                              AMOUNT

Supreme Court                                         $ 567,300.00

Court of Appeals                                       203,700.00

Trial judges                                           929,000.00

TOTAL                                                $1,700,000.00

     (3)  The agencies listed in subsection (2) of this section are authorized to escalate their budgets by the respective amounts specified for each agency and expend those sums for the purposes authorized by law.

SECTION 3.  (1)  During fiscal year 2010, the State Fiscal Officer shall transfer to the School District Emergency Assistance Fund created in Section 37-17-6(14)(b) the sum of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) from the Mississippi Adequate Education Program budget of the State Department of Education (Fund No. 2230).  The department is authorized to escalate the appropriate budget by the amount specified in this section and expend that sum for the purposes authorized by law, subject to the following provision:

     No funds provided in this section shall be expended by the State Department of Education for the support of a school district in which the Governor has declared a state of emergency until the State Board of Education has appointed and assigned an interim conservator to the school district.  The department shall provide to the House and Senate Education Committees and the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a monthly report of all expenditures that it makes for the support of a school district from the funds provided in this section during the period that the school district is administered, managed and operated by an interim conservator.

     SECTION 4.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

     Further, amend by striking the title in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

     AN ACT TO DIRECT THE STATE FISCAL OFFICER TO TRANSFER CERTAIN SUMS TO THE BUDGET CONTINGENCY FUND DURING FISCAL YEAR 2010 FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FUNDS TO RESTORE A PORTION OF THE BUDGET CUTS MADE TO CERTAIN AGENCIES DURING FISCAL YEAR 2010; TO DIRECT THE STATE FISCAL OFFICER TO TRANSFER SPECIFIED SUMS TO CERTAIN AGENCIES FROM THE AMOUNT TRANSFERRED TO THE BUDGET CONTINGENCY FUND; TO AUTHORIZE THE AGENCIES TO WHICH THE FUNDS ARE TRANSFERRED TO ESCALATE THEIR BUDGETS AND EXPEND THOSE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSES AUTHORIZED BY LAW, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS; TO DIRECT THE STATE FISCAL OFFICER TO TRANSFER A CERTAIN SUM TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND AND TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ESCALATE THE APPROPRIATE BUDGET BY THAT AMOUNT AND EXPEND THAT SUM FOR THE PURPOSES AUTHORIZED BY LAW, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

CONFEREES FOR THE SENATE           CONFEREES FOR THE HOUSE

X (SIGNED)	X (SIGNED)
Alan Nunnelee	Johnny W. Stringer
X (SIGNED)	X (SIGNED)
Doug E. Davis	Cecil Brown
X (SIGNED)	X (SIGNED)
Terry C. Burton	George Flaggs, Jr.