Mississippi House Bill 855 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 3 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 27-103-129, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Beginning With Budget Requests For Fiscal Year 2022, Each State Agency Shall Include In Its Budget Request A Specific Line Item For Each Proposed Expenditure Of The Agency Of Five Thousand Dollars Or More During The Next Fiscal Year; To Amend Section 27-103-123, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Beginning With The Budget For Fiscal Year 2022, The Recommended Budget For Each General Fund Agency Shall Have A Specific Line Item For Each Proposed Expenditure Of The Agency Of Five Thousand Dollars Or More During The Next Fiscal Year; To Amend Section 27-103-127, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Beginning With The Budget For Fiscal Year 2022, The Recommended Budget For Each Special Fund Agency Shall Have A Specific Line Item For Each Proposed Expenditure Of The Agency Of Five Thousand Dollars Or More During The Next Fiscal Year; To Create New Section 27-103-215, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Beginning With The Appropriation Bills For Fiscal Year 2022, Each Appropriation Bill For Each Agency Shall Have A Specific Line Item For Each Proposed Expenditure Of The Agency Of Five Thousand Dollars Or More During The Next Fiscal Year; To Amend Section 27-104-9, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Beginning With The Operating Budgets For Fiscal Year 2022, Each Agency Shall Include In Its Operating Budget A Specific Line Item For Each Proposed Expenditure Of The Agency Of Five Thousand Dollars Or More During The Next Fiscal Year, Which Line Items Shall Correspond To The Line Items In The Agency's Appropriation Bill Or Bills; To Bring Forward Sections 27-103-125, 27-103-139, 27-104-11 And 27-104-17, Mississippi Code Of 1972, Which Relate To The Proposed Budgets Prepared By The Legislature And The Governor And Expenditures By Agencies Under Their Budgets, For The Purposes Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.

State agency budget requests, appropriation bills and operating budget; require to include specific line items for proposed expenditures.

Rep. William Arnold [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-03	House	Died In Committee
2020-02-14	House	Referred To Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/history/HB/HB0855.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2020/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0855IN.htm