Bill Text: MS HB825 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Sheriff designated as chief corrections officer for housing state offenders; increase supplement to salary of.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee [HB825 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2024-HB825-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Corrections; Appropriations A
By: Representatives Harness, Paden
House Bill 825
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-935, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE FROM $15,600.00 TO $25,000.00 THE ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE SALARY OF A SHERIFF, WHO IS DESIGNATED THE CHIEF CORRECTIONS OFFICER OF A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND THE HOUSING OF STATE INMATES IN A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 47-5-935, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
47-5-935. Concurrent with
the execution of a contract for housing of state offenders as authorized by
Sections 47-5-931 through 47-5-941, the sheriff of a county where the facility
is located is designated as the chief corrections officer for the facility
housing state offenders, and in that capacity, shall assume responsibility for
management of the corrections facility and for the provision of the care and
control of the state offenders housed therein. The sheriff shall be subject to
the direction of the department for management of the correctional facility.
In addition to the compensation provided by Section 25-3-25, the sheriff shall
receive * * * Twenty-five Thousand Dollars
($25,000.00) as compensation for the duties specified in Sections 47-5-931
through 47-5-941.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2024.
