SB 3014 — Appropriation; Fair and Coliseum Commission - Livestock shows.

3014 (As Sent to Governor) AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFRAYING THE EXPENSES OF THE DIXIE NATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHOW;

The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the State Department of Agriculture and Commerce's special fund account to the State Department of Agriculture and Commerce for the purposes of defraying the costs of prizes, premiums, judges and other actual and necessary costs of putting on the Dixie National Livestock Show at the State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Mississippi, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024............$2024.........$ 1,200,000.00.

3014 *SS15/A435**SS08/A435SG* ~ OFFICIAL ~ A1/2 23/SS15/A43523/SS08/A435SG PAGE 1 (ki\ki) Fund, not otherwise appropriated, to the State Department of Agriculture and Commerce as follows:

Provided, however, that of the amount herein appropriated in paragraph (c),(c) of this section, not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) shall be expended or used in any one (1) county of the state during each fiscal year.

Provided, further, that none of the monies herein appropriated in paragraph (c) of this section shall be used in offering or paying prizes or awards for any livestock show that is not held where there are adequate barns, pens and other facilities available for such a show.

3014 *SS15/A435**SS08/A435SG* ~ OFFICIAL ~ 23/SS15/A43523/SS08/A435SG PAGE 2(ki\ki)2 Provided, further, in paragraph (c) of this section that the management of such shows shall be in the hands of a county livestock association, and such association shall guarantee a minimum amount of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) to be used in the paying of prizes, premiums or awards, and after said county show has been held and premiums paid, fifty percent (50%) of the amount, not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), shall be paid upon requisition to the State Department of Agriculture and Commerce.

Provided, further, in paragraph (c) of this section that in any county which has two (2) shows with proper facilities, and a contiguous county has no such fair and desires to participate in a fair to be held in an adjoining county, each of the two (2) fairs in one (1) county may receive an equal proportion of the funds hereby appropriated, provided, both shows shall not receive an aggregate sum of more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).

3014 *SS15/A435**SS08/A435SG* ~ OFFICIAL ~ 23/SS15/A43523/SS08/A435SG PAGE 3(ki\ki)3 Provided, further, that no part of the money herein appropriated under the provisions of paragraphs (d) and (e) of this section shall be used for any other purpose than to pay premium awards at said shows and state shows and expositions receiving legislative appropriation shall not conflict in dates in order that livestock exhibitors may make the circuit of shows.

Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the funds herein appropriated under the provisions of paragraphs (d) and (e) of this section shall be used in awarding prizes or premiums to 4-H Club members and Smith-Hughes School members and other boys and girls having entries in said shows.

All funds herein appropriated under the provisions of paragraphs (d) and (e) of this section for the five (5) district livestock shows and the five (5) fall state dairy shows shall be distributed in such manner that the livestock exhibitors will each draw equal premium awards for comparable grades and placings at each of the said five (5) district spring shows and the five (5) fall state shows.

3014 *SS15/A435**SS08/A435SG* ~ OFFICIAL ~ 23/SS15/A43523/SS08/A435SG PAGE 4(ki\ki)4 The State Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, together with a committee of three (3) to be named by the President of the Mississippi Livestock Council from that organization, shall summarize and prepare a unified list of awards for like classes in all spring district livestock shows and fall state dairy shows receiving state premium money, as authorized in paragraphs (d) and (e).(e) of this section.

The State Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall approve and present a requisition to the State Fiscal Officer for the payment of the amount of funds in paragraphs (d) and (e) of this section due each show and said State Fiscal Officer shall issue his warrant thereon, and it shall be paid by the State Treasurer.

Provided, however, as a condition of expenditure of the funds appropriated in paragraphs (d) and (e),(e) of this section, that the board of directors of any district livestock show may, in its discretion, choose to hold its show in the fall instead of the spring.

3014 *SS15/A435**SS08/A435SG* ~ OFFICIAL ~ 23/SS15/A43523/SS08/A435SG PAGE 5(ki\ki)5 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024.....................................$ 11,884.00.

(g) For promotion and expenses of the winners of the Mississippi Junior High School Rodeo for attending the national finals, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024.....................................$ 10,000.0010,000.00. (h) For the support of the Southern Cutting Futurity Championship, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024..............................$ 42,730.00.

(h) For the support of the Southern Cutting Futurity Championship, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024..............................$ 42,730.00.

Of the funds in Section 2 of this act, any funds that are remaining at the end of the fiscal year may be transferred between the different show awards and prize monies, with the exception that no county show in paragraphSection (c)2(c) of this act shall receive more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).

3014 *SS15/A435**SS08/A435SG* ~ OFFICIAL ~ 23/SS15/A43523/SS08/A435SG PAGE 6(ki\ki)6 warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer;

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2023, and shall stand repealed from and after June 30, 2023.

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