Bill Amendment: MS SB3025 | 2023 | Regular Session
Bill Title: Appropriation; Mental Health, Department of.
Status: 2023-04-19 - Approved by Governor [SB3025 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2023-SB3025-Senate_Amendment_No_2.html
Lost
AMENDMENT NO 2 PROPOSED TO
Senate Bill No. 3025
BY: Senator(s) Blackmon, Barnett, Butler (36th), Butler (38th), Frazier, Hickman, Horhn, Jackson, Jordan, Norwood, Simmons (12th), Simmons (13th), Thomas, Turner-Ford
AMEND by inserting the following as a new section below line 15 and renumbering subsequent sections accordingly:
SECTION *. The following sum is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Department of Mental Health for the purpose of defraying expenses related to providing mental-health therapy to parents of children who are transgender and to children who are transgender to provide counseling and support until the children reach the age of 18 upon the passage of House Bill 1125, Regular Session 2023, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending July 1,
2024.............................................. $5,000,000.00
In accordance with the requirements of Joint Rule 20A, the amount of State General Funds that are appropriated for the purpose of debt service as provided by Senate Bill 3051, Regular Session 2023 shall be reduced by.................................................. $5,000,000.00
FURTHER, AMEND the effective clause to conform.
FURTHER, AMEND the title to conform.