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Mississippi responses to the federal grant review process survey, 2021
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States employ a variety of processes to apply for and administer federal grants. Ballotpedia's 2021 state survey of the federal grant review process examined the general processes applied by the 50 states in order to seek and distribute federal funds.
Research from the Pew Charitable Trusts found that federal funds made up 32% (roughly $639 billion) of all state revenue in 2017, making them the second-largest source of state revenue behind state tax collections.[1] States direct federal funds to government programs related to education, healthcare, transportation, infrastructure, and other policies.[1]
This page features Mississippi's responses to Ballotpedia's 2021 survey.
Background
From August 5, 2021, to September 27, 2021, Ballotpedia staff contacted the executive and legislative budget offices of all 50 states via email and/or telephone to update a publicly available 2016 survey on state approaches to the federal grant review process.
Our staff contacted state officials with the following survey questions:
- Approval processes for federal grants
- What is your state’s process for federal grant applications and the approval process?
- What is your state’s approval process when the legislature is not in session?
- How does the legislature monitor the intent of federal grants? What legislative rules allow the state greater oversight of federal funds in the budgets?
- Contingency plans for the loss or decline of federal funds
- What is your state’s contingency plan in the case of a decline or loss of federal funds?
- Quality control processes for federal grants
- What is your state’s quality control process for tracking the effectiveness of federal funds?
- Does your state attempt to estimate the cost of federal fund requirements? If so, how?
- How does your state prioritize federal funds to best meet the needs of constituents?
- If your state doesn’t appropriate key federal funds like food stamps and unemployment benefits, are your state’s federal funds off-budget? How do you track this information?
Our staff also contacted state officials with the following two new survey questions regarding federal funds made available in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic:
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic funds
- Who has decision rights over American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations in your state?
- Who has decision rights over Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund allocations in your state?
Mississippi 2021 survey responses
What is your state’s process for federal grant applications and the approval process?
“The Mississippi Legislature does appropriate federal funds. Federal funding is considered by subcommittees along with all other funding issues.”
What is the approval process when the legislature is not in session?
“When the Legislature is not in session, state statute allows the agencies to escalate their annual budget for 100 percent federal funds (no match requirement). If there is any type of match requirement, the agency may not escalate their budget. They would need to wait to have their appropriation amended by the Legislature.”
How does the legislature monitor the intent of federal grants?
“Mississippi has recently (since 2012) begun a process to reinvigorate our 1994 performance budgeting and strategic planning efforts. Along with that, the state has initiated work with the PEW Foundation on Results First (looking at the impact of activities). Projects and programs funded with the assistance of federal dollars would be a part of that.”
What is your state’s contingency plan for state financing in the case of losses or decline in federal funds?
“The state has no long-range plan for the loss or decline of federal funds.”
What is your state’s quality control process for tracking the effectiveness of federal funds?
“Any agency that receives over $750,000 of federal funds in a year is subject to the Single Audit Act."
Does your state attempt to estimate the cost of federal fund requirements? If so, how?
"The agencies that request and receive federal funds are responsible for estimating the federal match requirements, this information is provided in the agency budget request received each year."
How does your state prioritize federal funds to best meet the needs of constituents?
“No answer given.”
If your state does not appropriate key federal funds like food stamps and unemployment benefits, are your state’s federal funds off-budget? How do you track this information?
“No answer given.”
Who has decision rights over American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations in your state?
“The Legislature will appropriate the ARPA funding.”
Who has decision rights over Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund allocations in your state?
“The Department of Education, is the agency that received those funds. School districts must apply to Department of Education, and Department of Education must use at least 90% of the ESSER funds to make subgrants to the school districts based on FY 2019 Title I, Part A.”
Other state survey responses
Click on a state below to view its responses to the 2021 survey on the federal grant review process:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
See also
- State survey of the federal grant review process, 2021
- State responses to the federal grant review process survey, 2021
- State responses by question to the federal grant review process survey, 2021
- Federalism
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