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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 30, 2019

Legislative PEER Report shows some marginal improvements but still danger ahead for PERS

The Legislative PEER Committee is releasing its report titled 2018 Update on Financial Soundness of the Public Employees’ Retirement System. Some of the Committee’s major findings include: The funding ratio at June 30, 2018 was 61.8%, which is an increase from 61.1% at the end of FY 2017. In FY 2018, there was 1.40 active…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
January 30, 2019

Governor Bryant signs rural broadband bill into law

Wednesday morning at the Capitol, Governor Phil Bryant was joined by the Lt. Governor Tate Reeves, Speaker of the House Philip Gunn, as well as others to sign HB 366 into law. The bill, authored by Speaker Gunn, would allow for co-ops to have the opportunity to provide broadband service to more rural communities that have…