Bill Text: MS HB75 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Regional correctional facilities; increase daily amount paid to certain facilities for housing state offenders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-02-05 - Died In Committee [HB75 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2019-HB75-Introduced.html

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2019 Regular Session

To: Corrections; Appropriations

By: Representative Clark

House Bill 75

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-933, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE DAILY FEE FROM $29.74 TO $42.00 THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS PAYS TO REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE HOUSING OF STATE OFFENDERS, IF THE FACILITY HOUSES FEWER THAN 300 STATE OFFENDERS; TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT TO INCLUDE IN THE CONTRACT A CERTAIN ANNUAL INCREASE IN THE CONTRACT PRICE FOR SUCH HOUSING; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 47-5-933, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     47-5-933.  The Department of Corrections may contract for the purposes set out in Section 47-5-931 for a period of not more than twenty (20) years.  The contract * * *may shall provide that the Department of Corrections pay a fee of * * *up to not less than Twenty-nine Dollars and Seventy-four Cents ($29.74) per day for each offender in the custody of the department that is housed in the facility, if the facility houses three hundred (300) or more offenders who are in the custody of the department, and that the department pay a fee of not less than Forty-two Dollars ($42.00) per day for each offender in the custody of the department that is housed in the facility, if the facility houses fewer than three hundred (300) offenders who are in the custody of the department.  The Department of Corrections * * *may shall include in the contract, as an inflation factor, a three percent (3%) annual increase in the contract price.  The state shall retain responsibility for medical care for state offenders to the extent that is required by law.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2019.


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