Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Signed — now law
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In plain words
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An act to create the mississippi rural water oversight committee; To define terms; To set committee membership; To require providers to obtain a rate study and capacity study by december 1, 2027, and every five years thereafter; To provide requirements for rates; To provide for modification of rates according to rate studies; To require providers to develop an asset management plan by december 1, 2027; To stipulate minimum requirements for such asset management plan; To allow the committee to promulgate rules and regulations concerning the rate studies, capacity studies and asset management plans; To require providers to set aside a portion of gross revenues for refurbishment and replacement; To require the committee to maintain an approved list of entities to conduct rate studies; To provide guidelines for approval; To require a rate study or amendment before commencement of a major development project; To require rate studies to be filed with the state auditor's office; To describe when a provider is in fiscal distress; To require the mississippi state department of health to maintain a list of providers in fiscal distress; To require providers in fiscal distress to file an improvement plan; To stipulate actions upon receipt of an improvement plan; To prohibit fiscally distressed providers from receiving certain state financial assistance until an improvement plan is in place; To provide for removal of board members upon a finding of fiscal distress; To require providers at 75% capacity to take certain actions; To provide that nothing in this act shall be construed as conflicting with federal law; To amend section 41-3-16, mississippi code of 1972, to provide for payment of new employees' annual salaries out of the local governments and rural water systems improvements revolving loan fund; And for related purposes.
