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September 27, 2007

Medicaid seeks deficit appropriation, plus $167 M more next year

The Sun Herald, 9/26/7 The Division of Medicaid will ask Mississippi lawmakers in January for $56 million to keep the agency afloat until the current budget year ends next June. Medicaid Executive Director Robert L. Robinson told the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on Wednesday that the deficit request is the difference between what the agency…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 27, 2007

Miss.: State Budget Hearings Underway

Forbes, 9/26/7 Many agency heads have learned that state spending isn’t the only thing discussed during hearings held by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Some of the 14 committee members use the face-to-face to ask about particular problems or to express concerns from residents, often putting agency leaders on the hot seat. Attorney General Jim…