House approves broad supplemental appropriations package; roundup of bills taken on third reading

The Mississippi House considered and disposed of an array of supplemental appropriations and transfer measures on the floor, taking up dozens of appropriations for state agencies, boards and programs on a calendar supplement. Most measures were taken on third reading and passed with routine floor explanations from appropriators; a handful prompted substantive member questions or amendment votes.

This roundup lists the formal actions taken on the calendar supplement as recorded on the House floor (titles and amounts are the floor explanations by appropriators). When a recorded vote or tally was provided on the transcript it is shown; where no tally was read on the floor the transcript text is cited as “not specified.”

Votes at a glance (selection of items taken on the supplement calendar)

- House Bill 50 — transfer $2,500,000 from the capital expense fund to the Victims of Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation Fund. Floor explanation: transfer effective on after passage. Vote: approximately 100 yeas, 0 nays (clerk reported “about a hundred yays, 0 nays”).

- Senate Bill 2028 — Department of Agriculture and Commerce appropriation, $29,540,519. Floor explanation included four new positions and capital/special fund authority for livestock and trademark…