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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
September 18, 2018

From budget requests to protestors, all in the September Joint Legislative Budget Committee Hearings

State departments appeared before the Joint Legislative Budget Committee Monday in Jackson to make their budget requests for the Fiscal Year 2020. Public Employees’ Retirement System: Public Employees’ Retirement System, PERS, asked for $19.6 million, a change of just over $45k. PERS currently represents 324,000 public employees and according to new director, Ray Higgins, the…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 18, 2018

YP Daily Roundup 9/18/18

WTOK – Lawmakers hold budget hearings Mississippi lawmakers are starting to look at agencies’ budget requests for the coming year. The Joint Legislative Budget Committee is holding public hearings Monday. It’s an early step in writing a state spending plan for the 2020 budget year, which begins in July. The 14-member committee used to hold…