Bill Text: MS SB2917 | 2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: State-owned vehicles; provide moratorium on purchase of and reduce total number over certain period of time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-05-08 - Due From Governor 05/25/12 [SB2917 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2012-SB2917-Comm_Sub.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2012 Regular Session

To: Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency

By: Senator(s) Collins

Senate Bill 2917

(COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE)

AN ACT TO PROVIDE A ONE-YEAR MORATORIUM ON THE PURCHASE, LEASE OR ACQUISITION OF MOTOR VEHICLES, REGARDLESS OF THE SOURCE OF FUNDS, BY ANY STATE AGENCY; TO REQUIRE CERTAIN STATE AGENCIES TO REDUCE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF MOTOR VEHICLES EACH YEAR BY A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  (1)  Beginning July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013, there shall be a one-year moratorium on the purchase, lease or acquisition of motor vehicles, regardless of the source of funds, by any state agency.

     (2)  The Bureau of Fleet Management, Department of Finance and Administration, shall not approve the purchase, lease or acquisition of any motor vehicle, regardless of the source of funds, beginning on July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013.

     (3)  Beginning July 1, 2013, any state agency with a fleet of more than forty (40) motor vehicles shall reduce the total number of its motor vehicles by two percent (2%) each fiscal year until June 30, 2016.  The Bureau of Fleet Management and the State Auditor shall work together to enforce the provisions of this subsection.

     (4)  For purposes of this section, the term "agency" shall have the meaning as provided in Section 25-9-107(d).

     (5)  The Department of Public Safety shall be exempt from the provisions of this act upon demonstrating to the Bureau of Fleet Management a justifiable need to purchase, lease or acquire motor vehicles, or a justifiable need to be excluded from the mandatory reduction of total vehicles provided in subsection (3).

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012.