Bill Text: MS SB2449 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Regional/county correctional facilities; MDOC may pay base contract price to house state offenders plus 3% inflation increase.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2015-02-03 - Died In Committee [SB2449 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2015-SB2449-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Corrections; Appropriations
By: Senator(s) Hopson
Senate Bill 2449
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-5-933, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO PAY A COST OF INFLATION INCREASE IN ADDITION TO THE PER DAY FEE PAID TO HOUSE STATE OFFENDERS IN REGIONAL OR COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES; 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 provide that the Department of Corrections pay a fee of up to Twenty-nine Dollars and Seventy-four Cents ($29.74) per day for each offender that is housed in the facility. In addition to the fee per day for each offender, the Department of Corrections may 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, 2015.
