[News] Partnership Replacement Clears House Committee
By Adam Lynch:
The House Public Health Committee produced a replacement for the strangled Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi today. Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, who is chairman of the committee, made it clear that he was seeking to replace the Partnership after former tobacco lobbyist Gov. Haley Barbour and State Treasurer Tate Reeves challenged the legality of the Partnership in court last year.
Barbour claimed that the Partnership?s automatic debit of $20 million from annual payments to the state from tobacco companies was unconstitutional and required more oversight from legislators, along with the governor?s annual budget signature, to be legitimate.
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