Adopted
AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO
Cmte Sub for Senate Bill No. 2825
BY: Senator(s) Branning
AMEND by inserting the following language below line 99 and renumbering subsequent sections accordingly:
SECTION *. There is hereby created a special fund in the State Treasury, to be known as the "DPS Motor Carrier Enforcement Fund." The fund shall consist of monies appropriated by act of the Legislature and monies transferred from the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Money in the fund shall only be utilized by the Department of Public Safety's Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division to defray expenses for officers' salaries and other costs to implement and enforce the provisions of this act. Unexpended amounts remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned or investment earnings on amounts in the fund shall be deposited to the credit of the fund.
FURTHER, AMEND on lines 173 and 174 by striking "Motor Carrier Division of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol" and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division
FURTHER, AMEND on line 583 by inserting the following language before "to enforce":
Upon request of the Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division within the Department of Public Safety, and when so instructed by the commissioner,
FURTHER, AMEND by striking lines 717 through 1190 and renumbering subsequent sections accordingly.
FURTHER, AMEND by inserting the following language below line 1729 and renumbering subsequent sections accordingly:
SECTION *. Section 19-11-27, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
19-11-27. No board of supervisors of any county shall expend from, or contract an obligation against, the budget estimates for road and bridge construction, maintenance and equipment, made and published by it during the last year of the term of office of such board, between the first day of October and the first day of the following January, a sum exceeding one-fourth (1/4) of such item of the budget made and published by it, except in cases of emergency. The clerk of any county is prohibited from issuing any warrant contrary to the provisions of this section. No board of supervisors nor any member thereof shall buy any machinery or equipment in the last six (6) months of their or his term unless or until he has been elected at the general election of that year. The provisions of this section shall not apply to (i) until January 1, 2020, projects of any type that receive monies from the Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program, the Emergency Road and Bridge Repair Fund, the 2018 Transportation and Infrastructure Improvement Fund or the Gulf Coast Restoration Fund and (ii) to expenditures during calendar year 2019 on deficient bridges in the State Aid Road System or the Local System Road Program that have a sufficiency rating of less than fifty (50) or to a contract, lease or lease-purchase contract executed pursuant to the bidding requirements in Section 31-7-13 and approved by a unanimous vote of the board. Such unanimous vote shall include a statement indicating the board's proclamation that the award of the contract is essential to the efficiency and economy of the operation of the county government. On and after July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2024, the provisions of this section shall not apply to projects of any type that receive monies from the Emergency Road and Bridge Repair Fund.
FURTHER, AMEND the title to conform.