MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2016 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Welfare; Appropriations
By: Senator(s) Doty
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-19-301, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT THE MISSISSIPPI ADOLESCENT CENTER IN BROOKHAVEN SHALL BE A PART OF AND ADMINISTERED BY THE BOSWELL REGIONAL CENTER; TO AMEND SECTION 4, CHAPTER 104, LAWS OF 2015, TO COMBINE THE FISCAL YEAR 2016 BUDGETS OF THE MISSISSIPPI ADOLESCENT CENTER AND THE BOSWELL REGIONAL CENTER; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 41-19-301, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
41-19-301. (1) The
Mississippi Adolescent Center located in Brookhaven, Mississippi, is recognized
as now existing and shall be for the care and treatment of persons with an
intellectual disability. The * * * center shall have the power to
receive and hold property, real, personal and mixed * * *. The * * * center shall be administered
by the Boswell Regional Center under the direction and control of the State
Board of Mental Health.
(2) Admissions shall be limited to adolescents with an intellectual disability who have been committed to the center by a youth court judge or chancellor in accordance with Section 41-21-109, or who are voluntarily admitted to the center.
(3) The Mississippi Adolescent Center is authorized to establish and operate a school to meet the educational needs of its clients.
(4) With funds provided by the Legislature, by direct appropriation or authorized bond issue, with federal matching funds, or with any other available funds, the Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management may construct and equip the necessary residential and service buildings and other facilities to care for the residents of the Mississippi Adolescent Center. The general design of the facility and all construction plans shall be approved and recommended by the State Department of Mental Health.
(5) * * * Provisions relating to the
admission and care of residents at the facility shall be promulgated by the State
Board of Mental Health.
(6) Persons admitted to the Mississippi Adolescent Center shall be assessed support and maintenance costs in accordance with the provisions of the state reimbursement laws as they apply to other state institutions.
(7) Any person who (a) knowingly and unlawfully or improperly causes a person to be adjudged to be a person with an intellectual disability, (b) procures the escape of a legally committed resident or knowingly conceals an escaped legally committed resident of the facility, or (c) unlawfully brings any firearm, deadly weapon or explosive into the facility or its grounds, or passes any thereof to a resident, employee or officer of the school, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00), or more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), imprisonment for not less than six (6) months, or both.
(8) The Mississippi
Adolescent Center is designated as * * * part of the Boswell Regional Center, the
state agency designated in Section 41-19-213 for carrying out the
purposes of any act of the Congress of the United States, now existing or at
any time hereafter enacted, pertaining to intellectual disabilities.
SECTION 2. Section 4, Chapter 104, Laws of 2015, is amended as follows:
Section 4. Of the funds appropriated under the provisions of Section 1 of this act and authorized for expenditure under the provisions of Section 2 of this act, not more than the amounts set forth below shall be expended:
CENTRAL OFFICE
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 2,843,097.00
Special Funds............................ 9,434,725.00
Total.............................. $ 12,277,822.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 58
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 44
Part Time........... 0
SERVICE BUDGET
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 37,577,246.00
Special Funds............................ 39,152,495.00
Total.............................. $ 76,729,741.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 0
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 0
Part Time........... 0
EAST MISSISSIPPI STATE HOSPITAL
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 37,070,242.00
Special Funds............................ 27,449,428.00
Total.............................. $ 64,519,670.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 998
Part Time........... 1
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 120
Part Time........... 15
ELLISVILLE STATE SCHOOL
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 17,260,311.00
Special Funds............................ 73,552,852.00
Total.............................. $ 90,813,163.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 1,446
Part Time........... 16
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 68
Part Time........... 0
MISSISSIPPI STATE HOSPITAL
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 75,794,039.00
Special Funds............................ 53,444,814.00
Total.............................. $ 129,238,853.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 1,853
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 109
Part Time........... 0
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI RESIDENTIAL CENTER
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 4,454,081.00
Special Funds............................ 3,602,916.00
Total.............................. $ 8,056,997.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 125
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 12
Part Time........... 0
MISSISSIPPI ADOLESCENT CENTER
FUNDING:
General Funds............................... $ * * * 0
Special Funds................................ * * * 0
Total.................................. $ * * * 0
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time..... * * * 0
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time.... * * * 0
Part Time........... 0
SPECIALIZED TREATMENT FACILITY
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 2,732,009.00
Special Funds............................ 6,287,661.00
Total.............................. $ 9,019,670.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 142
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 0
Part Time........... 0
DIVISION OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 0.00
Special Funds............................ 6,470,268.00
Total.............................. $ 6,470,268.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 7
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 0
Part Time........... 0
BOSWELL REGIONAL CENTER
FUNDING:
General Funds................... $ * * * 9,818,936.00
Special Funds..................... * * * 36,336,109.00
Total....................... $ * * * 46,155,045.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time.... * * * 556
Part Time........... 1
Time-Limited: Full Time.... * * * 83
Part Time........... 0
NORTH MISSISSIPPI STATE HOSPITAL
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 5,599,144.00
Special Funds............................ 2,942,201.00
Total.............................. $ 8,541,345.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 112
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 0
Part Time........... 0
NORTH MISSISSIPPI REGIONAL CENTER
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 10,942,280.00
Special Funds............................ 57,699,114.00
Total.............................. $ 68,641,394.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 869
Part Time........... 3
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 160
Part Time........... 7
HUDSPETH REGIONAL CENTER
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 10,569,929.00
Special Funds............................ 50,263,455.00
Total.............................. $ 60,833,384.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 857
Part Time........... 19
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 26
Part Time........... 0
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI REGIONAL CENTER
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 6,860,796.00
Special Funds............................ 30,795,359.00
Total.............................. $ 37,656,155.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 489
Part Time........... 4
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 69
Part Time........... 2
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI STATE HOSPITAL
FUNDING:
General Funds........................... $ 4,870,916.00
Special Funds............................ 3,054,973.00
Total.............................. $ 7,925,889.00
With the funds appropriated for this budget, the following positions are authorized:
AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:
Permanent: Full Time........... 107
Part Time........... 0
Time-Limited: Full Time........... 0
Part Time........... 0
With the funds herein appropriated, it shall be the agency's responsibility to make certain that funds required to be appropriated for "Personal Services" for Fiscal Year 2017 do not exceed Fiscal Year 2016 funds appropriated for that purpose, unless programs or positions are added to the agency's Fiscal Year 2016 budget by the Mississippi Legislature. Based on data provided by the Legislative Budget Office, the State Personnel Board shall determine and publish the projected annual cost to fully fund all appropriated positions in compliance with the provisions of this act. It shall be the responsibility of the agency head to ensure that no single personnel action increases this projected annual cost and/or the Fiscal Year 2016 appropriations for "Personal Services" when annualized, with the exception of escalated funds and the award of benchmarks. If, at the time the agency takes any action to change "Personal Services," the State Personnel Board determines that the agency has taken an action which would cause the agency to exceed this projected annual cost or the Fiscal Year 2016 "Personal Services" appropriated level, when annualized, then only those actions which reduce the projected annual cost and/or the appropriation requirement will be processed by the State Personnel Board until such time as the requirements of this provision are met.
Any transfers or escalations shall be made in accordance with the terms, conditions and procedures established by law or allowable under the terms set forth within this act. The State Personnel Board shall not escalate positions without written approval from the Department of Finance and Administration. The Department of Finance and Administration shall not provide written approval to escalate any funds for salaries and/or positions without proof of availability of new or additional funds above the appropriated level.
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.
None of the funds herein appropriated shall be used in violation of Internal Revenue Service's Publication 15-A relating to the reporting of income paid to contract employees, as interpreted by the Office of the State Auditor.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2016.