Bill Text: MS HB1797 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriation; MDE for Mississippi Broadband Availability Act purposes.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Passed) 2020-07-09 - Law W/out Governor's Signature [HB1797 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2020-HB1797-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2020 Regular Session

To: Rules

By: Representative Bounds

House Bill 1797

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FROM THE MISSISSIPPI BROADBAND AVAILABILITY GRANT PROGRAM FUND TO THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR PURPOSES OF THE MISSISSIPPI BROADBAND AVAILABILITY ACT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1.  The following sum, or so much of it as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the Mississippi Broadband Availability Grant Program Fund to the Mississippi Department of Education for the purposes described in the Mississippi Broadband Availability Act, for the period beginning upon July 1, 2020, and ending December 30, 2020, or to such later date as may be specified in the guidelines, guidance rules, regulations and/or other criteria of the United States Department of the Treasury regarding the use of monies from the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, but not to a date later than June 30, 2021..............................................$ 50,000,000.00.

     SECTION 2.  As a condition of receiving and expending the funds appropriated to the Mississippi Department of Education under Section 1 of this act, the Mississippi Department of Education shall certify to the Department of Finance and Administration that each expenditure of the funds appropriated to the Mississippi Department of Education under Section 1 of this act is in compliance with the guidelines, guidance, rules, regulations and/or other criteria, as may be amended from time to time, of the United States Department of the Treasury regarding the use of monies from the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

     SECTION 3.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.