Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, House.
Donnie Scoggin
Sponsored
Became law2
Memorial highways; designate a segment of MS Highway 537 in Jones County as the "Sgt. John Howard Tanner Memorial Highway."
Suffrage; restore to Charles Kenneth Landrum of Jones County.
Passed the House1
MS Childcare Teachers Shortage Task Force; create.
Out of committee2
IHLs and community and junior colleges; increase spending authority on repair, renovations and improvement projects.
18th Circuit Court District; increase ADA's and investigators.
In committee12
Hospice and Palliative Care Study and Advisory Committee Act; create.
Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts; allow to speak to students regarding civic involvement, with principal's approval.
Mississippi School Risk Management Task Force; create.
Bonds; authorize for construction of Rural Health Institute at South Central Regional Medical Center in Laurel.
Registered nurses and advanced practice registered nurses; revise authority to delegate medication administration.
Pharmacy Benefit Prompt Pay Act; revise.
Income tax; authorize credit for certain employers loaning employees to serve as instructors at community colleges.
Appropriation; IHL for behavioral threat assessment and violence-prevention pilot program.
Appropriation; Community College Board for behavioral threat assessment and violence-prevention pilot program.
Appropriation; City of Laurel for costs of certain projects.
City of Laurel; extend repeal date on hotel and motel tax.
Appropriation; DFA for Knox Academy for costs of expanding its facilities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Memorial highway; designate a segment of U.S. Highway 49 North as Colonel Donnel Berry.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.
Passed the House · 3
Health insurance; require coverage for genetic testing for inherited mutation and evidence-based cancer imaging.
MS Agricultural and Livestock Theft Officers; authorize to retain their personal firearm upon retirement.
Death certificate; require physician, APRNs or physician assistants who attended to decedent's care to sign.
Out of committee · 3
Radar; authorize use by law enforcement officers in certain municipalities.
Kratom; add to Schedule III of the Uniform Controlled Substance Act.
Kratom; add to Schedule III of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act.
In committee · 3
Purple Angels Law; create to require registry of persistent domestic violence offenders.
Birth certificate; prohibit change of sex on unless verified by medical records that sex of child is not what is shown on.
Appropriation; MS Volunteer Firefighter Length-of-Service Awards Program Fund.