MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2017 1st Extraordinary Session

To: Appropriations

By: Representative Read

House Bill 5

(As Sent to Governor)

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 25, LAWS OF 2016 (SENATE BILL NO. 2916), TO REVISE THE APPROPRIATION TO THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 TO DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO MAKE THE PAYMENTS DUE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POINT CADET COMPROMISE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT.

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

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 25, Laws of 2016 (Senate Bill No. 2916), is amended as follows:

Section 1.  The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, for the support and maintenance of the Secretary of State for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017..................................................

.............................................. $  16,046,492.00.

     Of the funds appropriated in this section and all sums available in the Point Cadet Leasing Fund, the Secretary of State shall make the payments due in the amount of One Million Five Hundred Ninety-three Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Dollars and Fifty-two Cents ($1,593,970.52) in accordance with the Point Cadet Compromise and Settlement Agreement dated August 15, 2002.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.