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Legislature keeps oversight after removing local-spending rules from opioid settlement council bill
Summary
Conference committee removed earlier local spending guidelines for opioid settlement dollars and gave the legislature authority to adjust council-recommended grants; members raised concerns that local recipients are not required to document prior opioid spending.
The conference report for the Mississippi Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council cleared the House floor after conferees reported two substantive conference changes: the previously proposed local spending guidelines were removed and the Legislature retained the authority to change amounts recommended by the advisory council.
"One, we removed the guidelines for the locals. The guidelines were in place to kind of guide where the local setup money could be spent. That has been removed," the member explaining…
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