Adopted
AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO
House Bill No. 799
BY: Representative Horan
AMEND by inserting the following language after line 117 and by renumbering the succeeding section:
SECTION 2. Section 47-5-933, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
47-5-933. The Department of
Corrections may contract for the purposes set out in Section 47-5-931 for a
period of not more than twenty (20) years. The contract may provide that the
Department of Corrections pay a fee of no more than * * * Thirty-four
Dollars ($34.00) per day for each offender that is housed in the facility.
The Department of Corrections may include in the contract, as an inflation
factor, a three percent (3%) annual increase in the contract price. The state
shall retain responsibility for medical care for state offenders to the extent that
is required by law; provided, however, the department may reimburse each
facility for contract medical services as provided by law in an amount not to
exceed Six Dollars and Twenty-five Cents ($6.25) per day per offender.
AMEND TITLE to conform as follows: Amend on line 4 by inserting the following language after the semicolon: TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-933, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE FROM $31.00 TO $34.00 THE AMOUNT THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS PAYS PER DAY FOR EACH STATE OFFENDER WHO IS HOUSED IN A REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY;