1996 INDEX
STATE - LEGISLATURE
96-027-E     A legislator may not accept employment with a county tourism commission if the tourism commission is funded by a state appropriation during the legislator's term or for one year thereafter. [9, 1 1, F]
96-029-E     A former legislator can not be employed by a construction firm if the construction firm's state contracts were funded during the legislator's term or for one year thereafter as it would violate Constitutional Section 109 and §25-4-105(2). Cautioned regarding §25-4-105(3)(e) and (5). [B, F, L]
96-053-E     A legislator may not serve concurrently as a corporate counsel/government relations specialist/registered lobbyist for a corporation:
if the corporation contracts with the State as to do so would violate Constitutional Section 109 and §25-4-105(2).
as any action on his part to influence a decision of the Legislature of which he is a member would violate §25-4-1 05(3)(d).
Cautioned regarding §25-4-101 and §25-4-105(1) and (5). [F, L]
96-058-E     A legislator may not be employed by a private company that sells health care equipment to individuals in their homes when approximately 10% of the company's sales are from Medicaid as to do so would violate Constitutional Section 109 and §25-4-105(2). [B, F]
96-083-E     1. A legislator's engineering firm's contract with a county through a joint venture is not prohibited if the state funds granted to the contract were appropriated by the Legislature prior to the beginning of the legislator's term.
2. A legislator does have a prohibited interest, under Constitutional Section 109 and §25-4-105(2), in any of his engineering firm's existing contracts should any state funds granted to those projects be appropriated or reappropriated by the Legislature during the legislator's term, or within one year after the expiration of his term. [9, 22, B, F]
96-103-E     Constitutional Section 109 and §25-4-105(2) prohibit a state legislator from personally benefiting from a student loan or grant if the associated funds were authorized for expenditure or if there was a law passed authorizing the program by the Legislature during the member's term or for one year thereafter. [22, F, G]

96-107-E     1. A legislator's design firm is not as such prohibited from contracting with a school district to construct a field house funded by sixteenth section land funds.

2. A legislator's design firm is not as such prohibited from contracting with a school district to continue with a construction project that is funded by local ad valorem taxes and state public school building funds if no general legislation was passed allowing the use of these funds for this purpose and if these funds were not appropirated or reappropriated by the Legislature during the member's term or for one year thereafter.

Cautioned regarding Constitutional Section 109 and §25-4-105(1) and (2). [20, 30, F]
96-118-E     A legislator's company may make sales directly to local governments and/or contractors of local governments provided the funds were not appropriated by the Legislature during the member's term or for one year thereafter and no general legislation giving the local governments authority to enter into the contracts was passed by the Legislature during the member's term or for one year thereafter. Cautioned regarding Constitutional Section 109 and §25-4-105(1) and (2). [5, 9, F]
96-124-E     The conflict of interest laws would not as such prohibit a legislator, individually or as a partner, from participating in the Mississippi Small Business Assistance Program when the authorizing legislation, including the bonding authority, was passed by the Legislature prior to the legislator taking office. Cautioned regarding Constitutional Section 109, §25-4-105(1) and (2), and §25-4-101. [4, 22, F]