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Opinion  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
March 29, 2021

Education to receive $102 million more in FY2022 budget

UPDATE: The Senate also moved to adopt the conference report upon gaveling in later Monday evening.  The Mississippi House has approved the conference report for the Mississippi State Department of Education budget. HB 1387 appropriates $2,303,506,047 from the general fund, which is a $102 million or 4% increase from FY2021’s appropriation with $2.1 billion of…
Opinion  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
March 29, 2021

Mississippi House and Senate on cusp of an agreement for criminal justice reform

Senator Brice Wiggins (R) said negotiations on the criminal justice reform bills are close to being settled between the Mississippi House and Senate. The two major bills in the criminal justice reform effort are HB 796 and SB 2795, both of which are in the conference process. HB 796 is the habitual offender bill. It…