HB 1060

An act to create the strengthen mississippi homes act; To amend section 83-1-191, mississippi code of 1972, to rename the comprehensive hurricane damage program as the "strengthen mississippi homes program"; To require the program to provide for hurricane, tornado and other catastrophic windstorm damage mitigation; To delete requirements for a cost-benefit study on wind hazard mitigation construction measures, wind certification and hurricane mitigation inspections, and an advisory council; To increase the maximum amount of financial grants, per home, offered by the program; To require the commissioner of insurance to promulgate rules for issuing grants under the program; To rename the comprehensive hurricane damage mitigation program fund the "strengthen mississippi homes program fund"; To delete the repealer on the program; To require the commissioner of insurance to submit an annual report to the governor, lieutenant governor and chairs of the house and senate insurance committees on the program; To amend section 83-5-73, mississippi code of 1972, to increase the fee charged by the commissioner of insurance for filing and processing an agent's certificate of authority; To require half of the fee to be deposited into the strengthen mississippi homes program fund and half into the state general fund; And for related purposes.