Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, House.
W.I. "Doc" Harris
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Homestead exemption; increase for honorably discharged veterans age 85 or older and unremarried surviving spouses of such persons.
Sexual battery; create a mandatory minimum for penalties.
National Blood Donor Month; designate January as in State of Mississippi.
Memorial highway; designate a segment of U.S. Highway 49 North as Colonel Donnel Berry.
Passed the House · 3
Student enrollment; require automobile registration as proof of residency.
Gold Star Father's Day; designate November 9 as.
Mississippi National Guard Servicemembers Medical Readiness Act.
Out of committee · 2
Public schools; require school boards to adopt policy on bell-to-bell cell phone prohibitions.
Rick Kennedy Act; create.
In committee · 14
Homestead exemption; increase for certain unremarried surviving spouses of veterans.
CDL; exempt county and municipal employees who operate vehicles and equipment in the performance of their job.
MCOPS Grant Program; increase grant amount up to a minimum of $40,000 per officer employed as a school resource officer.
School districts; require boards to adopt policy granting cost-free admission to school-sponsored athletic and extracurricular events.
School resource officers; authorize local law enforcement agencies to enter agreement with independent nonpublic schools to provide.
Ten Commandments; permit display in every public school and charter school classroom.
False reporting of crimes against schools; prescribe penalties to be imposed upon minor defendants.
School board members; authorize grounds and prescribe procedures for removal from office.
Military leave for training; revise amount authorized.
Nurses; authorize US Coast Guard Health Services Technicians to take exam to be licensed as an LPN.
Income tax; increase amount of National Guard compensation excluded from gross income.
Death penalty; revise how the options are chosen and require cost efficient consideration.
Appropriation; City of Olive Branch for land acquisition and engineering services for making improvements to Highway 305.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Olive Branch with improvements to historic Maples Methodist Church building.