MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2025 Regular Session
To: Appropriations A
By: Representatives Hale, Burch, Carpenter, Creekmore IV, Eubanks, Hall, Keen, Kinkade, Mattox, McCray, Tubb
AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE MISSISSIPPI EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE ACQUISITION OF EQUIPMENT TO PUMP OR TRANSFER POTABLE WATER TO HEALTHCARE FACILITIES AND OTHER ESSENTIAL INSTITUTIONS DURING WATER SYSTEM EMERGENCIES DUE TO NATURAL DISASTERS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2026.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. The following sum, or so much of it as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency for the purpose of providing funding for the acquisition of equipment to pump or transfer potable water to healthcare facilities and other essential institutions during water system emergencies due to natural disasters for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026............. .................................................. $ 1,500,000.00.
SECTION 2. The money appropriated by this act shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer; and the State Fiscal Officer shall issue the warrants upon requisitions signed by the proper person, officer or officers in the manner provided by law.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2025.