MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2000 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Representatives Warren, Scott (17th), Brown, Frierson, Livingston, Peranich, Weathersby
House Bill 1620
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF MISSISSIPPI, FOR THE MINIMUM EDUCATION PROGRAM AND FOR THE EDUCATION OF HOSPITALIZED AND EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2001.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the State Department of Education for the support and maintenance of the common schools of Mississippi and for the Minimum Education Program for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001, as follows:
For the support and maintenance
of the common schools
(Common School Fund) $ 5,000,000.00
An additional sum, to be known as
the Minimum Education Program Fund,
to be disbursed by the State Department
of Education in compliance with the laws
enacted at the Extraordinary Session
of 1953, as amended $1,157,678,973.00
Total $1,162,678,973.00
SECTION 2. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the Education Enhancement Fund pursuant to Sections 27-65-75 and 27-67-31, Mississippi Code of 1972, to the State Department of Education for the purpose of providing Sixteen Million Three Hundred One Thousand Twelve Dollars ($16,301,012.00) for transportation, Five Million Seven Hundred Thirty-four Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty-one Dollars ($5,734,831.00) for teacher assistants, Thirty-eight Million Nine Hundred Four Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-two Dollars ($38,904,332.00) for public school employee health insurance for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001
$ 60,940,175.00.
SECTION 3. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the Education Enhancement Fund and deposited pursuant to Section 27-103-203(1), Mississippi Code of 1972, to the State Department of Education for the purpose of providing Twenty Million Five Hundred Twenty-three Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-five Dollars ($20,523,935.00) for the public school employee health insurance Two Million Three Hundred Sixty-seven Thousand Nine Hundred Fifteen Dollars ($2,367,915.00) for additional supportive services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001
$ 22,891,850.00.
SECTION 4. Of the funds appropriated to the Minimum Education Program Fund under the provisions of Sections 1, 2 and 3, the estimated amount that shall be expended in each of the following elements of the Minimum Education Program shall be:
District Administration: Salaries............$ 2,894,953.00
Fringe Benefits..... 460,298.00
Local Administration: Salaries............ 1,799,465.00
Fringe Benefits..... 286,115.00
Teacher Compensation:
Regular Units: Salaries............ 582,997,370.00
Fringe Benefits..... 92,696,582.00
Special Education Units: Salaries............ 127,673,490.00
Fringe Benefits..... 20,300,085.00
Gifted Education Units: Salaries............ 22,409,020.00 Fringe Benefits..... 3,563,034.00
Vocational Units: Salaries............ 33,142,521.00
Fringe Benefits..... 5,269,661.00
Teacher Assistants: Salaries............ 45,575,000.00
Fringe Benefits..... 7,246,425.00
Supportive Services:
Regular: Salaries............ 119,102,074.00
Fringe Benefits..... 18,937,230.00
Additional.................................. 2,367,915.00
Insurance.................................. 111,408,413.00
Transportation: Operations........... 53,001,012.00 Alternative Schools............................ 17,706,876.00
Extended School Term for
Handicapped Students......................... 2,168,659.00
Bus Driver Training............................ 144,800.00
Orthopedic and Aphasic......................... 460,000.00
Total Cost................................$1,271,610,998.00
Less: Ad Valorem Tax................. 24,000,000.00
Severance Tax.................. 1,100,000.00
Appropriated Amount.......................$1,246,510,998.00
The above sum is intended to provide a level of support for eighteen thousand twenty-one (18,021) regular teacher units, four thousand one hundred ninety (4,190) special education teacher units, seven hundred ten (710) gifted education teacher units, one thousand seventy-seven (1,077) vocational teacher units and five thousand (5,000) teacher assistant units.
Any transfers or escalations shall be made in accordance with the terms, conditions, and procedures established by general law.
No general funds authorized to be expended herein shall be used to replace federal funds and/or other special funds which are being used for salaries authorized under the provisions of this act and which are withdrawn and no longer available.
The State Department of Education, in reporting expenditures and disbursements to the Legislature, shall report the amounts expended and disbursed in categories corresponding to the elements outlined in this section.
SECTION 5. The State Department of Education is authorized to transfer district allotments for insurance separately from regular Minimum Program allotments to insure funds are received by school districts for timely payment of premiums.
SECTION 6. In compliance with the "Mississippi Performance Budget and Strategic Planning Act of 1994," it is the intent of the Legislature that the funds provided herein shall be utilized in the most efficient and effective manner possible to achieve the intended mission of this agency. Based on the funding authorized, this agency shall make every effort to attain the targeted performance measures provided below:
FY01
Performance Measures Target
Regular Education
Teacher Units Funded (Units) 18,021
Teacher Assistants (Persons) 5,000
Cost per Student Served (Dollars) 1,785
Special Education
Teacher Units Funded (Units) 4,190
Students Served (Persons) 68,898
Cost per Student Served (Dollars) 2,632
Vocational Education
Teacher Units Funded (Units) 1,077
Students Served (Persons) 162,000
Cost per Student Served (Dollars) 290
Gifted Education
Teacher Units Funded (Units) 710
Students Served (Persons) 30,975
Cost per Student Served (Dollars) 1,021
Alternative Education
Students Served (Persons) 4,950
Cost Per Student Served (Dollars) 3,577
Transportation
Students Transported (Persons) 408,000
Cost Per Student Served (Dollars) 130
Insurance
Participants (Persons) 49,848
Cost Per Participant (Dollars) 2,316
Special Programs
Extended School Year Program Students (Persons) 1,200
Orthopedic/Aphasic Students (Persons) 100
Cost Per Orthopedic/Aphasic Student (Dollars) 4,600
A reporting of the degree to which the performance targets set above have been or are being achieved shall be provided in the agency's budget request submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee for Fiscal Year 2002.
SECTION 7. Should revenues generated and deposited to the Education Enhancement Fund pursuant to Section 27-103-203(1), Mississippi Code of 1972, and apportioned pursuant to Section 37-61-33(6), Mississippi Code of 1972, fall below funds appropriated herein from said source, the State Department of Education shall notify the Department of Finance and Administration as to which allotments shall be reduced to insure expenditures do not exceed actual revenues.
SECTION 8. It is the intention of the Legislature that the State Department of Education be allowed to receive, budget and expend funds from any source available not to exceed Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00), that may become available to the department in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Department of Finance and Administration.
SECTION 9. The money herein appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the proper fund or funds as set forth in this act, upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer; and the State Fiscal Officer shall issue his warrants upon requisitions signed by the proper person, officer or officers, in the manner provided by law.
SECTION 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2000.