MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2018 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Senator(s) Hill
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1 OF CHAPTER 102, LAWS OF 2017, (HOUSE BILL NO. 1502) TO REDUCE THE GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRANSFER THOSE FUNDS TO THE TEACHER INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FUND FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of Chapter 102, Laws of 2017 (House Bill No. 1502) is amended to read as follows:
Section 1. (1) The following sums, or so much of those sums as may be necessary, are appropriated, out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of funding K-12 and other related educational activities, including certain agencies and programs, in the State of Mississippi, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, as follows:
(a) To the State Board of Education for the purpose of
defraying the expenses of the State Department of Education, and excluding the
expenses of the Vocational and Technical Education Division $ * * * 77,842,770.00.
(b) To the State Board of Education for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Vocational and Technical Education Division of the State Department of Education................. $ 76,193,758.00.
(c) To the State Board of Education for the purpose of paying annual compensation to the Chickasaw Cession counties for sixteenth section lands which they lost through sale by the state, as provided in Sections 29-3-137 through 29-3-141, Mississippi Code of 1972.. $ 19,573,344.00.
(d) To the State Board of Education for defraying the expenses of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program..................
........................................... $ 1,996,544,752.00.
(e) To the State Board of Education for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Mississippi School for the Blind and the Mississippi School for the Deaf............................ $ 9,618,184.00.
TOTAL AMOUNT OF STATE GENERAL FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY THIS
SECTION BEING..................................... $ * * * 2,179,772,808.00.
(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 the State Department of Education for the purpose of defraying the expense of classroom supplies and instructional material as defined in Section 37-61-33(3)(iii), Mississippi Code of 1972, for the period beginning upon the passage of this act and through June 30, 2017. $ 38,743,454.00.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.