MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2022 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Representatives Currie, Tullos
AN ACT TO MAKE AN ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND FIRE FIGHTERS DEATH BENEFITS TRUST FUND TO THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY; TO PROVIDE THAT SUCH FUNDS MAY ONLY BE SPENT ON THE PAYMENT OF DEATH BENEFITS FOR WHICH THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS A DEATH COVERED UNDER THE SAFEGUARDING AMERICA'S FIRST RESPONDERS ACT OF 2020; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. In addition to all other sums appropriated to the department, the following sum, or so much of it as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefits Trust Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety for the purposes described in Section 45-2-1, for the period beginning January 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2022...........$5,000,000.00.
SECTION 2. The funds appropriated under Section 1 of this act may only be spent on the payment of death benefits for which the cause of death is a death covered under the Safeguarding America's First Responders Act of 2020.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.