SB 2409

An act to create the "strengthen mississippi homes act" to establish a comprehensive mitigation program IN the mississippi department of insurance for retrofitting insurable homes; To amend section 83-1-191, mississippi code of 1972, to rename the "comprehensive hurricane damage mitigation program" to the "strengthen mississippi homes program"; To establish criteria for the new program; To include hurricane, tornado, hail, OR other catastrophic windstorm event mitigation; To establish an advisory council; To provide for operational reports to be submitted to the governor and the legislature; To increase the amounts of financial grants offered by the strengthen mississippi homes program to $10,000.00 per home and to allow the mississippi department of insurance to establish criteria for the issuing of grants by regulation; To provide that grants shall be subject to appropriation; To rename the "comprehensive hurricane damage mitigation program fund" to the "strengthen mississippi homes fund"; To remove the repealer; To amend section 83-5-73, mississippi code of 1972, to increase the fee charged for an agent's certificate of authority; And for other related purposes.