Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Otis Anthony
Sponsored
In committee2
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; reauthorize issuance to supporters of Gentry High School and revise distribution of fees collected from issuance.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize issuance to supporters of Thomas E. Edwards High School.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Baby Drop-off Law; revise.
State contract price; authorize rural water associations to purchase commodities under.
Counties; authorize boards of supervisors to pay county employees every two weeks.
Department of Revenue; authorize to revise individual income tax forms to allow taxpayer to designate two bank accounts for direct deposit.
State offenders; extend repealer on authority to house in county jails when state space is unavailable.
Petroleum Products Inspection Law; extend repealers on definitions and penalties under.
Pharmacy Benefit Prompt Pay Act; revise various provisions of.
Financial institutions; authorize to delay a transaction upon good-faith belief that eligible person will be exploited.
Church Protection Act; revise how a church is required to maintain reords of its security team.
Chancery court clerk fees; revise those charged for recording oil and gas assignments.
Hospice; allow medical directors to prescribe controlled substances for pain for terminally ill patients without in-person visit.
Poll managers; remove limitation on additional that election commissioners may appoint.
"Future of Mississippi Agriculture Act of 2020"; enact.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Bonds; authorize for various purposes.
Appropriations; DFA for tourism and nonprofit art museum recovery.
State Flag; revise with a commission and require words "In God We Trust."
Vetoed · 2
Felony conviction expungements; revise number that one may be eligible for.
Mississippi Workforce Incentive Act of 2020; create.
Passed the House · 20
Community or junior colleges; authorize to administer construction contracts of $1,000,000.00 or less, and exempt certain oversight.
The Sexual Assault Response For College Students Act; create.
Golf carts and low-speed vehicles; allow municipalities to authorize operation on municipal streets.
Mississippi Veterans Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund; create.
Law enforcement officers; allow off-duty use of official vehicles while performing certain volunteer services in off-duty hours.
Gifted education; require school districts to provide for students in Grades 7 and 8.
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities.
Driver's license; require Department of Public Safety to allow official identifying document of MDOC to suffice for.
Teacher licensure; revise qualifications for candidates to enter an approved teacher education program.
Unused ballots; provide for the retention and destruction of.
Habitual offender; revise penalties for.
Mississippi Educational Talent Recruitment Act; create.
Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a District of Innovation.
Computer science curriculum; require State Department of Education to implement in K-12 public schools.
School athletic trainers; provide annual salary supplement for those acquiring national certification.
Institutions of higher learning; require to ensure commercially reasonable procurement practices when purchasing aircraft equipment and services.
Mississippi S.A.F.E. Mortgage Act; remove repealer, clarify record keeping requirements and estimate of costs provided to borrower.
Community or junior college; require to include source of funds used to advertise certain workforce development courses and training.
Mississippi Veterans Home Perpetual Care Fund; create.
Career and technical education; revise curriculum, instructor license requirements and certain assessments.
In committee · 24
Practice of medicine or dentistry; allow person convicted of certain crimes to practice after license reinstatement.
Mental Health Treatment Facility; revise hearing and commitment procedures.
Smart State Act; create.
State employee personal and major medical leave; revise definition of "catastrophe injury or illness" to include mental illness for the purpose of the donation of.
Bonds; create small municipalities security cameras and equipment grant program and authorize bonds to provide funds.
Elections; prohibit use of word "re-elect" unless for person who is current incumbent of the office sought.
Right to vote; restore automatically once a person has been released from the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Department of Corrections discharge plans; require explanation of disenfranchising crimes and provide opportunity for offenders to become registered voters.
"Our Children's Health Impacts Our Future Law"; enact to require parental acknowledgement of notice upon student enrollment.
Prohibition on Price Gouging for Essential Drugs Act; create.
Starkville High School AP Government Class of 2019 Motor Voter Act; create to establish the procedure for the automatic registration of voters.
Medicaid; seek waiver for plan to expand eligibility with regional care organizations, known as "One Mississippi."
Amusement rides; provide inspection and incident reporting requirements for.
Medicaid; eligible pregnant women shall remain eligible for maternal care services for 12 months after end of pregnancy.
Vocational and home economics; require curriculum for all middle, high and alternative school students.
Teacher licensure; authorize issuance to certain individuals with foreign certification on reciprocity with documentation.
"Keeping Our Municipalities Clean Pretrial Intervention Act"; create.
Suffrage; restore to all upon meeting all terms and conditions of sentence.
Mental health screenings and assessments; require in all public schools.
State Correctional Facilities Monitoring Unit; establish.
Optometry; State Board of Optometry shall define the practice of and not exclude certain procedures.
Critical teacher shortage; include those employed in certain school districts who hold National Board Certification as eligible for salary supplement.
Habitually disruptive students; require to be evaluated for disability under IDEA after second incident of disruptive behavior.
Private prisons that house state offenders; provide moratorium on the expansion of.