Chaos and CompromisePub Date : 2020-10-21DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496830197.003.0011
Brian Pugh
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Brian Pugh","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496830197.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496830197.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Major budget reform in Mississippi has occurred only twice in the last four decades, with the most significant reform occurring in the mid-1980s. No reform shaped Mississippi’s budget-making process more than the Mississippi Administrative Reorganization Act of 1984 (S.B. 3050, passed during the 1984 legislative session), which was passed not voluntarily by the legislature but as a result of a court order. The drastic budget reform would have not occurred if it had not been for then–Attorney General Bill Allain’s challenge to the structural makeup of the committee responsible for the budget-making process at the time, the Commission of Budget and Accounting. The state supreme court’s decision in ...","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"22 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120811728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legislature’s Intervention with Budget Reform","authors":"Brian Pugh","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.11","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 5 discusses the legislature’s response to the budget problems that occurred at the end of the Mabus administration. The legislature grew frustrated with the unrealistic revenue forecasting used to construct the state’s budget and responded by passing the Budget Reform Act of 1992 in order to strengthen the budget process. The reform act created a proper reserve fund known as the Working Cash-Stabilization Reserve Fund (Rainy Day Fund). The act also created a revenue 2 percent set-aside requirement as a cushion.","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124024789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporarily Enhanced Executive Influence over Budget Decisions under Mabus","authors":"Brian Pugh","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses budget power that was briefly enhanced under Governor Ray Mabus at the beginning of his administration. It shows how Mabus fended off an attempt by the legislature to weaken executive budget authority by vetoing S.B. 2214. Chapter 4 explains how Mabus worked with the legislature to abolish the Fiscal Management Board and replace it with the Department of Finance and Administration (DFA). This chapter also looks at the efforts made by Mabus to get more funding for public education, more specifically, funding for Mississippi’s B.E.S.T. (Better Education for Success Tomorrow) program.","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116746894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legislative Joint Rules Change","authors":"Brian Pugh","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.15","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 9 discusses an important legislative rules change (Joint Rule 20A) which critics claimed weekend the powers of rank-and-file legislators. Joint Rule 20A had no direct effect on the executive branch of government. The chapter explains how House Speaker Philip Gunn and Lt. Governor Tate Reeves pushed through the rules change during the opening day of their tenure to prohibit any legislators from trying to increase the budget of any agency without stating from what agency the increase in funding would be taken.","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115292713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legislative Power Weakened","authors":"Brian Pugh","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains how legislative power was weakened after the courts agreed with Attorney General Bill Allain that it was unconstitutional for legislators to serve on executive boards and commissions. This chapter discusses the most important separation of powers case in the state’s history, Alexander v. State of Mississippi by and Through Allain (1983). The court decision in the Alexander case resulted in the passage of the Mississippi Administrative Reorganization Act of 1984, which created a new budget making process. The reorganization act created the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) and the Fiscal Management Board (FMB).","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132539161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128896783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Budget Process, Postreorganization, under Allain","authors":"Brian Pugh","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses Bill Allain’s contributions to the budget making process as governor. The Mississippi Supreme Court’s decision in the Alexander case made Allain the first governor to serve under the new reorganization act. Chapter 3 takes a look at how Allain adjusted to the new budget making process post reorganization. This chapter discusses the establishment of the Fiscal Management Board and how Allain utilized executive budget powers, designated to governors, to force the legislature to provide more funding to the Mississippi Highway Department.","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130376261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Executive–Legislative Conflict under Fordice","authors":"Brian Pugh","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.12","url":null,"abstract":"This Chapter discusses, for the most part, Governor Kirk Fordice, the first Republican Governor since Reconstruction, and his struggles with the Democrats that dominated both the Mississippi House and Mississippi Senate. It shows how the legislature disregarded Fordice’s conservative agenda. Chapter 6 looks at how separation of powers became an issue yet again between the executive and legislative branch, which forced the judicial branch to intervene once more in the case Fordice v. Bryan (1995)\u0000","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121112899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Origin and Evolution of Mississippi’s Budget Process and Control over It","authors":"Brian Pugh","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses Mississippi’s historic budget process and constitutional power structure. It discusses the powers given to the separate branches of government by Mississippi’s four constitutions (1817, 1832, 1868, and 1890). It shows how Mississippi’s current 1890 Constitution provided more legislative budget authority rather than executive budget authority. Chapter one shows how executive authority was weakened even more when the Budget Commission was replaced by the legislatively dominated commission of Budget and Accounting.","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115700583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Budget Control under Bryant","authors":"Brian Pugh","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv177tg4q.16","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses contributions made to the budget making process by Governor Phil Bryant. Chapter 10 explains how the budget process was changed by Bryant as well as the legislature. This chapters explains how Bryant recommended and was successful in getting the legislature to pass the Financial and Operational Responses That Invigorate Future Years (FORTIFY) Act, which was received positively by the legislature. It also discusses the legislature’s controversial bill known as the Budget Transparency and Simplification Act of 2016 or simply S.B. 2362, which was not well received by the credit rating agencies or state agencies that the bill affected. Chapter 10 also discusses a legislative/executive dispute that landed in court when two legislators sued the governor in Representative Bryant W. Clark and Senator John Horhn v. Governor Phil Bryant et al. (2018).","PeriodicalId":129293,"journal":{"name":"Chaos and Compromise","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126896622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}