MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2025 Regular Session

To: Appropriations E

By: Representatives Harness, Holloway (76th), Denton, Butler-Washington, Gibbs (36th), Jackson (45th), Thompson

House Bill 1780

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FUNDING FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL LAND-GRANT RESEARCH AND EXTENSION PROGRAMS 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 Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning for the purpose of providing funding for the support of the Alcorn State University Agricultural Land-Grant Research and Extension Programs for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026

..................................................$  9,387,582.00.

     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.