Public Utilities Staff; remove from the provisions of the MS Budget Transparency and Simplification Act.

HB 713 clarifies that Mississippi's Public Utilities Staff is not included in the list of state agencies funded from the General Fund under the 2016 Budget Transparency and Simplification Act. The bill amends Section 27-104-205 of Mississippi Code to explicitly remove the Public Utilities Staff from the budgeting category affected by that law. This change does not alter existing tax funding mechanisms for the agency (which continue to use utility taxes deposited into the Public Utilities Staff Regulation Fund). The bill focuses solely on budget classification, not on changing funding levels or policy.