MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Representative Chism
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-59-75, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO ELIMINATE THE MONETARY CAP ON THE MISSISSIPPI TRAUMA CARE SYSTEMS FUND AND TRANSFER ALL MONIES IN THE MISSISSIPPI TRAUMA CARE ESCROW FUND TO THE SYSTEMS FUND; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 41-59-75, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
41-59-75. * * * The Mississippi Trauma Care Systems Fund is
established. Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) collected from each assessment of Twenty
Dollars ($20.00) under subsection (1) of Section 99-19-73 and Thirty Dollars
($30.00) collected from each assessment of Forty-five Dollars ($45.00) under
subsection (2) of Section 99-19-73, as provided in Section 41-59-61, and any
other funds made available for funding the trauma care system, shall be
deposited into the fund. Funds appropriated from the Mississippi Trauma Care
Systems Fund to the State Board of Health shall be made available for
department administration and implementation of the comprehensive state trauma
care plan for distribution by the department to designated trauma care regions
for regional administration, for the department's trauma specific public
information and education plan, and to provide hospital and physician indigent
trauma care block grant funding to trauma centers designated by the
department. All designated trauma care hospitals are eligible to contract with
the department for these funds. Monies in the Mississippi Trauma Care
Systems Fund shall not lapse into the State General Fund at the end of the
fiscal year, and all interest and other earnings on the monies in the
Mississippi Trauma Care Systems Fund shall be deposited to the credit of the
Mississippi Trauma Care Systems Fund. Any monies in the Mississippi Trauma
Care Escrow Fund on July 1, 2020, shall be transferred into the Mississippi
Trauma Care Systems Fund.
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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.