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Mississippi Senate adopts substitute and advances appropriation vehicle for disaster assistance fund
Summary
The Senate adopted a committee substitute and passed an appropriation vehicle intended to add funds to the state disaster assistance trust fund for MEMA, with senators clarifying the money is for state response costs and not direct household assistance.
The Mississippi Senate on the floor advanced measures intended to bolster the state's disaster response funding, adopting a committee substitute and passing an appropriation vehicle that legislators said would direct money into the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency's (MEMA) disaster assistance trust fund.
Senator Hobson, speaking to item 5 on the calendar, described two related measures as a general bill and an appropriations bill that "will provide $2,020,000,000 dollars to MEMA to go into the disaster assistance trust fund," and said a committee substitute proposed adding $20,000,000 to the trust fund to cover state response and mobilization costs, including National Guard deployments and expenses for state agencies such as the Department of Environmental Quality and the…
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