Bill Text: MS HB544 | 2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Burn Center Lodge; update name of organization receiving tax to support it to the current name of MS Burn Foundation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-11 - Due From Governor 04/17/12 [HB544 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2012-HB544-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2012 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Representative Baker
House Bill 544
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 27-39-332, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, WHICH AUTHORIZES COUNTIES TO LEVY MILLAGE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF THE BURN CENTER LODGE FOR FAMILIES OF VICTIMS BEING TREATED AT THE BURN UNIT AT CROSSGATES RIVER OAKS HOSPITAL, TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION TO WHICH THE PROCEEDS OF THE MILLAGE ARE PROVIDED FROM THE MISSISSIPPI FIREFIGHTERS MEMORIAL BURN ASSOCIATION TO THE CURRENT NAME OF THE MISSISSIPPI BURN FOUNDATION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 27-39-332, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
[Until July 1, 2016, this section shall read as follows:]
27-39-332. (1) The board of supervisors of any county is authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to levy a tax not to exceed one (1) mill per annum upon all taxable property of the county, which shall be provided directly to the Mississippi Department of Health to support the Mississippi Burn Care Fund.
(2) (a) The board of supervisors of any county is authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to levy a tax not to exceed one (1) mill per annum upon all taxable property of the county, which shall be provided directly to the Mississippi Burn Foundation to support the construction and/or operation of the Burn Center Lodge for families of victims being treated at the Joseph M. Still Burn and Reconstructive Center, Inc., at Crossgates River Oaks Hospital.
(b) (i) The Mississippi Burn Foundation shall hire an independent auditor, who uses generally accepted accounting principles and auditing standards, to perform an annual audit on the financial condition of the association and to create a report containing the results of the audit. The auditor's report shall be submitted to the Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance within one hundred eighty (180) days of the end of the association's fiscal year, and shall be published in accordance with the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.
(ii) No county board of supervisors shall donate any funds to the Mississippi Burn Foundation in any year in which the association fails to submit the annual audit report, required by this paragraph (b), to the Commissioner of Insurance. The Mississippi Burn Foundation shall be prohibited from receiving any funds until the annual audit report, required by this paragraph (b), is submitted to the Commissioner of Insurance.
[From and after July 1, 2016, this section shall read as follows:]
27-39-332. The board of supervisors of any county is authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to levy a tax not to exceed one (1) mill per annum upon all taxable property of the county, which shall be provided directly to the Mississippi Department of Health, or the University of Mississippi Medical Center after the Mississippi Burn Center is operational, to support the Mississippi Burn Care Fund.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012.
