MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Public Health and Welfare

By: Senator(s) Simmons

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-59-75, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CLARIFY THAT DESIGNATED TRAUMA CARE CENTERS ELIGIBLE FOR INDIGENT CARE FUNDING MAY BE LOCATED IN COUNTIES ADJOINING THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI; 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. Five Dollars ($5.00) collected from each assessment of Ten Dollars ($10.00) 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. Designated trauma care centers may be located in any county or political subdivision adjoining the State of Mississippi, and are fully eligible to receive indigent care block grant funding.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1999.