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House approves broad supplemental appropriations package; roundup of bills taken on third reading
Summary
On a supplemental calendar the House approved dozens of agency appropriations, reappropriations and transfers across state government in a single floor session. Several bills received little floor debate; a few items drew extended questioning or failed on the floor.
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 facilities. Vote: not specified in transcript.
- Senate Bill 2029 — appropriation for county livestock shows; increases award per county from $1,000 to $2,000; total cited as $266,540. Vote: not specified in transcript.
- Senate Bill 2030 — Board of Animal Health appropriation, $3,201,762 (increase above LBR cited). Vote: 98 yays, 0 nays (clerk read tally).
- Senate Bill 2031 — Gaming Commission appropriation, $11,243,636 (above LBR). Vote: 99 yays, 2 nays (clerk read tally).
- Senate Bill 2026 — Department of Corrections appropriation. See separate article for extended floor debate. Final vote: 85 yays, 13 nays.
- Senate Bill 2009 — University of Mississippi Medical Center appropriation, total $1,918,243,621 (state support and no capital expense in the appropriation as explained). Vote: 97 yays, 1 nay (clerk read tally).
- Senate Bill 2016 — Department of Mental Health appropriation, $722,701,946; the House reported $8,124,465 above LBR and no capital expense money. Vote: 100 yays, 0 nays (clerk read tally).
- Senate Bill 2034 — Department of Military appropriation, $173,570,121; appropriators said $7,000,000 of capital expense was included (Amory Readiness Center $6,000,000; Youth Challenge Academy $1,000,000). Vote: reported as over 100 yays, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 2015 — Board of Pharmacy appropriation, $4,154,101 (special fund agency). Vote: 98 yays, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 2022 — Board of Public Contractors appropriation, $4,300,000. Vote: 93 yays, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 2048 — Coronavirus/ARPA reappropriation and program allocations. Appropriators summarized numerous reappropriations (health, water infrastructure, workforce, hospital grants, behavioral health, nursing school construction, and surface transportation match projects). Final vote on the reappropriation bill: 95 yays, 0 nays (clerk read tally).
- Transfer bills and capital expense transfers (not exhaustive): the floor considered transfer bills that reallocate capital expense funds to a variety of purposes including veterans projects, DOT multimodal and infrastructure match funds, community projects and land improvement funds. Several such transfers were explained on the floor and approved; a subset included reported capital amounts (examples: $18,000,000 to MDOT strategic multimodal investment fund; $40,000,000 to MDOT infrastructure match fund). Vote tallies for transfers: not specified in transcript for many items, though specific transfer bills show recorded votes when the clerk announced them.
- Other special fund and small‑agency appropriations — dozens of special fund agency appropriations for boards and commissions (boards of veterinary examiners, dental examiners, banking and consumer finance, public accountancy, licensing boards and many others) were taken, usually with only brief floor explanations and routine recorded votes (most read as unanimous or near‑unanimous by the clerk).
Failed or closely examined items
- A transfer bill that would have moved capital expense funds to a LaFleur’s Bluff project and a Mississippi Children’s Museum program (senate bill 2049/2050 referenced on the floor) drew floor debate and a recorded vote; one transfer measure tied to LaFleur’s Bluff failed on the floor after a recorded vote (clerk announced the bill failed). Transcript records and floor exchanges show sustained objection by several members to the LaFleur’s Bluff appropriation; the clerk read the final result as “bill fails.”
Ending
The House completed a large number of supplemental funding items in a single floor session, advancing the majority of routine agency appropriations and transfers while members used the floor to press for details on a subset of items (notably corrections, several capital transfers, and ARPA reappropriations). Appropriators generally pledged to provide additional documentation or contract details on request.
