MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2001 Regular Session

To: Appropriations

By: Senator(s) Gordon

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 8, CHAPTER 128, LAWS OF 2000, TO TRANSFER APPROPRIATED STATE GENERAL FUNDS FROM THE LICENSE TAG FUND TO THE STATE TAX COMMISSION SUPPORT FUND TO HIRE TEMPORARY WORKERS FOR THE INCOME TAX FILING SEASON; TO AMEND SECTION 10, CHAPTER 128, LAWS OF 2000, TO MAKE OPTIONAL THE TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATED STATE GENERAL FUNDS TO THE STARS ACQUISITION FUND, FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 8, Chapter 128, Laws of 2000, is amended as follows:

Section 8. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the License Tag Commission for the purchase and delivery of motor vehicle license tags, and for transfer of excess funding to the State Tax Commission Support Fund for the purpose of hiring temporary workers for the income tax filing season, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001....$1,512,500.00.

Of the funds appropriated in this section, not more than Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000.00) excess funding shall be transferred to the State Tax Commission Support Fund.

SECTION 2. Section 10, Chapter 128, Laws of 2000, is amended as follows:

Section 10. Of the funds appropriated in Section 1, the following sum may be transferred to the State Tax Commission - STARS Acquisition Fund, a special fund in the State Treasury, during fiscal year 2001.............................$1,212,061.00.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.