Mississippi HB 1700: Appropriation; Education, Department of.

Bill Text

HB1700 (As Sent to Governor) - 2020 Regular Session 

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2020 Regular Session

To: Appropriations

By: Representatives Read, Bennett, Banks, Barton, Boyd, 
Busby, Clark, Clarke, Criswell, Currie, Eure, Haney, Jackson, Sanford, Watson, 
Young, Foster, McCray

House Bill 1700

(As Sent to Governor)

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUNDING K-12 
AND OTHER RELATED EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING CERTAIN AGENCIES AND 
PROGRAMS, IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2021.

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

���� SECTION 1.� The 
following sums, or so much of those sums as may be necessary, are appropriated 
out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the 
purpose of funding K-12 and other related educational activities, including 
certain agencies and programs, in the State of Mississippi, for the fiscal year 
beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021, as 
follows:

(a)� To the State Board of Education for the purpose of 
defraying the expenses of the State Department of Education, and excluding the 
expenses of the Vocational and Technical Education Division........................................... $���� 
91,973,176.00.

(b)� To the State Board of Education for the purpose of 
defraying the expenses of the Vocational and Technical Education Division of 
the State Department of Education............................ 

........................................... $���� 
73,546,001.00.

(c)� To the State Board of Education for the purpose of 
paying annual compensation to the Chickasaw Cession counties for sixteenth 
section lands which they lost through sale by the state, as provided in 
Sections 29-3-137 through 29-3-141, Mississippi Code of 1972.... $���� 
15,961,151.00.

(d) To the State Board of Education for defraying the 
expenses of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program............

........................................... $� 
2,047,736,695.00.

(e)� To the State Board of Education for the purpose of 
defraying the expenses of the Mississippi School for the Blind and the 
Mississippi School for the Deaf...........$����� 9,590,454.00.

���� TOTAL AMOUNT OF STATE 
GENERAL FUNDS APPROPRIATED

BY THIS SECTION BEING....................$� 
2,238,807,477.00.

���� SECTION 2.� The 
following sums, or so much of those sums as may be necessary, are appropriated 
out of any money in any special fund in the State Treasury to the credit of the 
proper fund or funds of the agencies or programs specified in the following paragraphs 
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, and ending 
June 30, 2021, as follows:

(a)� To the State Board of Education for the purpose of 
defraying the expenses of the State Department of Education,� excluding the 
expenses of the Vocational and Technical Education Division. $�� 
902,791,576.00.

(b)� To the State Board of Education for the purpose of 
defraying the expenses of the Vocational and Technical Education Division of 
the State Department of Education............................ 

........................................... $���� 
20,981,914.00.

(c)� To the State Board of Education for the purpose of 
defraying the expenses of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program� $��� 
238,269,249.00.

(d)� To the State Board of Education for the purpose of 
defraying the expenses of the Mississippi School for the Blind and the Mississippi 
School for the Deaf.............. $����� 2,158,848.00.

���� TOTAL AMOUNT OF SPECIAL 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED

BY THIS SECTION BEING.................. $� 
1,164,201,587.00.

SECTION 3.� Of the funds appropriated in Section 
2, One Hundred Twenty-six Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-two Dollars ($126,472.00), 
or so much of that sum as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in 
the State Treasury to the credit of the Health Care Expendable Fund to the 
State Department of Education for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the 
department for the Mississippi Eye Screening Program for providing vision 
safety services.

���� SECTION 4.� Of the 
funds appropriated in Section 2, the following sums, or so much of those sums 
as may be necessary, are derived out of any money in the State Treasury to the 
credit of the Education Enhancement Fund pursuant to Sections 27-65-75 and 27-67-31, 
Mississippi Code of 1972, as follows:

��������� (a)� To the State 
Department of Education, excluding the expenses of the Vocational and Technical 
Education Division, for the following purposes:

Literacy Initiative and Assessment...... $����� 
6,333,806.00.

Educable Child......................... $����� 
7,000,000.00.

���� Grants to school districts 
for capital

facilities and buses............... $���� 16,000,000.00.

Instructional materials................ $���� 
12,000,000.00.

Students with Special Needs............. $����� 
1,800,000.00.

Implementing Performance Based Data

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Accreditation

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