HB 1643

An act to create the mississippi department of emergency management within the executive branch of state government IN order to house emergency management subagencies, units, and/or offices within state government; To amend sections 33-15-2, 33-15-5, 33-15-7, 33-15-11, 33-15-14, 33-15-15, 33-15-19, 33-15-25, 33-15-31, 33-15-51, 33-15-53, 33-15-305, 33-15-307, 33-15-308, 33-15-309, 33-15-311, 33-15-313, 33-15-317, 33-15-401, 33-15-403, 19-5-385, 19-5-383, 19-5-387 and 19-5-393, mississippi code of 1972, to assign authorities to the executive director of the mississippi department of emergency management; To establish the mississippi emergency management agency as an office of the mississippi department of emergency management; To transfer the mississippi emergency communications authority from under the purview of the mississippi emergency management agency to an office under the purview of the mississippi department of emergency management; To establish an office of administrative services within the mississippi department of emergency management; And for related purposes.