Mississippi Senate Bill 2267 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 2 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-02-02 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Provide That Beginning With The 2010-2011 School Year The Department Of Finance And Administration Shall Prepare And Distribute All Checks For The Salaries Of Licensed And Nonlicensed School District Employees In The State; To Amend Section 37-151-101, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Direct The State Department Of Education To File With The State Treasurer And The Department Of Finance And Administration Necessary Data And Information To Enable The Department To Prepare All School District Payroll Checks And Distribute Said Payments By Electronic Funds Transfer To Each Employee; To Authorize The State Treasurer And The Department Of Finance And Administration To Establish Necessary Funds And Accounts In The Name Of Each School District In The State In Order To Verify Each Employee To Whom Payroll Checks Are Distributed; To Provide That Each School District Shall Transfer To The Department Of Finance And Administration From Local District Maintenance Funds Any Local Supplements Or Other Amounts To Be Used For School District Salaries On A Monthly Basis; To Authorize The State Treasurer And The State Fiscal Officer To Jointly Promulgate Regulations For The Utilization Of Electronic Funds Transfers To School Districts For Salary Payroll Purposes; To Provide That The Savings Resulting From The Consolidation Of All Payroll Functions To A Central Department Shall Be Certified To The Legislative Budget Office And Shall Be Appropriated By The Legislature For The Support Of Teacher Salaries In The School Districts; To Provide That The Department Of Finance And Administration Shall Be The Purchasing Agent For All Public School Districts In The State; To Provide That All Public School Districts Shall Purchase Perishables, Commodities, Equipment, Supplies And School Buses Through The Department Of Finance And Administration; To Establish An Office Of School Purchasing Of The Department Of Finance And Administration; To Provide That The Savings Resulting From The Consolidation Of All Purchasing Functions To A Central Department Shall Be Certified To The Legislative Budget Office And Shall Be Appropriated By The Legislature For The Support Of The Various State-funded Scholarship Programs At The State Institutions Of Higher Learning; To Amend Sections 31-7-12, 37-39-1, 37-39-5, 37-39-15, 37-39-17, 37-39-21, 37-39-23, 37-39-25, 37-41-101 And 37-41-103, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformity Thereto; And For Related Purposes.

Payroll and purchases for public school districts; DFA prepares payroll and makes purchases.

Sen. Eugene Clarke [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-02		Died In Committee
2010-01-07		Referred To Education;Appropriations

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2010/pdf/history/SB/SB2267.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2010/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2267IN.htm