Tabled

AMENDMENT NO 6 PROPOSED TO

House Bill No.    1

BY: Representative Miles

AMEND by inserting the following new section after line 1274 and renumbering any succeeding section:

SECTION 15.  The Mississippi Department of Transportation, a political subdivision of the state or a municipality of the state may form a public-private partnership for a highway, road or bridge improvement by which the department, political subdivision or municipality may negotiate for private funding assistance toward a highway, road or bridge project in exchange for naming rights of the section of highway, road or bridge for which the private funding assistance was provided.  The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall adopt rules and regulations necessary for the department to utilize such public-private partnerships.

AMEND further title to conform.