REPORT OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

MR. SPEAKER AND MR. PRESIDENT:

We, the undersigned conferees, have had under consideration the amendments to the following entitled BILL:

H. B. No. 1623: Appropriation; Library Commission.

We, therefore, respectfully submit the following report and recommendation:

 

1. That the Senate recede from its Amendment No. 1.

2. That the House and Senate adopt the following amendment:

 

AMEND by striking lines 11 through 43 and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

June 30, 2001 $ 11,235,938.00.

SECTION 2. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the special fund in the State Treasury to the credit of the Mississippi Library Commission which is comprised of special source funds collected by or otherwise available to the commission, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the commission for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001

$ 2,831,100.00.

SECTION 3. Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of Section 1 and Section 2, not more than the amounts set forth below shall be expended for the respective major objects or purposes of expenditure:

MAJOR OBJECTS OF EXPENDITURE:

Personal Services:

Salaries, Wages and Fringe Benefits $ 2,304,032.00

Travel and Subsistence 47,393.00

Contractual Services 2,216,006.00

Commodities 488,004.00

Capital Outlay:

Other Than Equipment 0.00

Equipment 149,656.00

Subsidies, Loans and Grants 8,861,947.00

Total $ 14,067,038.00

FUNDING:

General Funds $ 11,235,938.00

Special Funds 2,831,100.00

Total $ 14,067,038.00

AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:

Permanent: Full Time 61

Part Time 0

Time-Limited: Full Time 0

Part Time 0

AMEND FURTHER by inserting the following new SECTIONS 8 and 9 after line 116 and renumbering succeeding sections:

SECTION 8. Of the funds appropriated herein, not less than One Million Eighty-six Thousand Three Hundred Forty Dollars ($1,086,340.00) shall be expended for the Magnolia Database.

SECTION 9. Of the funds appropriated herein, Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) is provided to the Library Commission to purchase one (1) passenger/cargo van.
   

CONFEREES FOR THE HOUSE

CONFEREES FOR THE SENATE
   

X (SIGNED:)

X (SIGNED:)

Charlie Capps, Jr.

Jack Gordon
   

X (SIGNED:)

X (SIGNED:)

Joseph L. Warren

Alice Harden
   

X (SIGNED:)

X (SIGNED:)

Diane C. Peranich

Mike Chaney