Mississippi HB 1385: Appropriation; Attorney General.

Bill Text

HB1385 (As Sent to Governor) - 2021 Regular Session 

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2021 Regular Session

To: Appropriations

By: Representatives Read, White, Banks, Beckett, Bennett, 
Bounds, Busby, Cockerham, Hines, Hopkins, Watson, Young

House Bill 1385

(As Sent to Governor)

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFRAYING 
THE EXPENSES OF THE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

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

SECTION 1.� The following sum, or so much thereof 
as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund 
not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the 
Office of the Attorney General for the fiscal year beginning 
July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022.......................... 

............................................ $��� 26,728,540.00.

SECTION 2.� The following sum, or so much thereof 
as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in any special 
fund in the State Treasury to the credit of the Office of the Attorney General 
which is comprised of special source funds collected by or otherwise available 
to the office, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the office for the 
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending 
June 30, 2022.................................................. 

............................................ $���� 
7,022,208.00.

SECTION 3.� Of the funds appropriated under the 
provisions of this act, the following positions are authorized:

� AUTHORIZED POSITIONS:

Permanent:���� Full Time............ ����� 94

Part Time............ ������ 0

Time-Limited:� Full Time............ ���� 243

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 2023 do not exceed Fiscal 
Year 2022 funds appropriated for that purpose unless programs or positions are 
added to the agency's Fiscal Year 2022 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.� Absent a 
special situation or circumstance approved by the State Personnel Board, or 
unless otherwise authorized by this act, no state agency shall take any action 
to promote or otherwise award salary increases through reallocation or 
realignment.� If the State Personnel Board determines a special situation or 
circumstance exists and approves an action, then the agency and the State 
Personnel Board shall provide a monthly report of each action approved by the 
State Personnel Board to the chairmen of the Accountability, Efficiency and 
Transparency Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives and the 
chairmen of the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and House of 
Representatives.� 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 2022 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 2022 "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.

���� Funds have been appropriated 
herein for the purpose of implementation and funding Project SEC2 of the 
Colonel Guy Groff State Variab