MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2025 Regular Session
To: Corrections
By: Representative Currie
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-933, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REMOVE THE AUTHORITY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO INCLUDE, AS AN INFLATION INDICATOR, A THREE PERCENT ANNUAL INCREASE IN ITS CONTRACT PRICE FOR THE HOUSING OF STATE OFFENDERS IN COUNTY REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES; TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-945, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM TO THE PRECEDING SECTION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. 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-two Dollars and
Seventy-one Cents ($32.71) per day for each offender that is housed in the
facility. * * * 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.
SECTION 2. Section 47-5-945, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
47-5-945. The Department of
Corrections shall contract for the purposes set out in Section 47-5-943 for a
period of not more than twenty (20) years. * * * The state shall retain responsibility for medical care for
state offenders to the extent that is required by law.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2025.