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MS SB2905

Bill

Status

Passed

4/20/2021

Primary Sponsor

Briggs Hopson

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Origin

Senate

2021 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Appropriates $34,585,035 from the State General Fund and $46,215,454 from federal, student fees, and special source funds to support Mississippi's eight universities' designated institutes, laboratories, and programs for fiscal year 2022 (July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022)

  • Funds 17 specific programs including the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems ($4,480,637), Gulf Coast Research Laboratory ($8,039,119), Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences ($3,416,812), and the Executive Office of the Board of Trustees ($6,929,980)

  • Allocates $175,000 from Gulf Coast Research Laboratory funds for Sea Grants matching and designates $830,742 from Education Enhancement Funds for specific programs

  • Reappropriates $360,000 for the University of Mississippi State Court Education Program to continue operational expenditures authorized in previous legislation

  • Prohibits use of appropriated funds for research in which human embryos are killed or destroyed, and requires the Board of Trustees to report any institution not in compliance with deficit spending prohibitions

Legislative Description

Appropriation; IHL - Subsidiary programs.

Last Action

Approved by Governor

4/20/2021

Committee Referrals

Appropriations2/17/2021

Full Bill Text

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