Bills in the 2010 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
Became law1
Nurse-Family Partnership program; State Department of Health shall establish in MS.
Passed the House5
Health Disparities Council; create.
Healthcare Coordinating Council; require to make report on specific health goals for the state.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
Children's services and programs; require all state agencies to provide information relating to such in a list to the Legislature.
Children's Advocacy Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
Out of committee2
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds may be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
In committee48
Medicaid; require participation in medical home concept and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
Appropriation; Health Department for additional funds for Office of Health Disparity Elimination.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Elementary school counselors; allocate funds under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
Pre-kindergarten program; require Department of Education to create "ABC Program" to provide instruction via Internet.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund administered by the State Department of Education.
School curriculum; require students to receive additional instruction in healthy living.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
Minority set-aside; revise qualifications of eligibility for obtaining purchasing contracts under.
Outdoor advertising; prohibit promoting or marketing alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and fast food in certain areas.
Random drug tests; require of all public school students in Grades 6 through 12.
Mississippi Save Our Children Act; create to require the implementation of certain programs in certain school districts.
Teacher scholarship; authorize for college graduates for costs of courses required for teacher licensure.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
School districts; require policies if accredited at the 3 lowest levels as defined by the State Bd. of Edu. and alternate curriculum.
Medicaid; provide for a database of electronic medical records of Medicaid recipients, with access by Medicaid providers.
Health screening; require annually for Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Plan recipients and participants.
Comprehensive sex education; require teaching of in Grades K-12.
Mississippi Comprehensive Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2010; create.
Motivating Parents and Children (M.P.A.C.) pilot program; establish within the State Department of Education.
Social workers; provide in schools having high incidences of crime and via video conferencing means.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurses to teach.
Nursing education; require community colleges to offer online program for LPNs to obtain associate degree in.
Nursing schools and programs; make eligible for funding to increase faculty if increase enrollment proportionately.
Health insurance; require providers to allow children under 30 who are veterans to be covered under parent's policy.
Charter schools; create pilot program in the Laurel Municipal Separate School District.
Health benefit plans; prohibit unfair discrimination against subjects of abuse.
"Dream Makers Program"; create as an after-school program for students in Grades 7 and 8.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
CON; issue for nursing home in Jones County.
"Mississippi Senior Cadets Program"; require Department of Education to establish.
Middle School Academic Plan; provide for PEER monitoring.
Online learning programs; improve oversight and quality assurance of in public schools.
Math and science instruction; enhance.
Mississippi High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2010; create.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Mississippi Charter School Law; reenact.
Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement Act; create.
Compulsory School Attendance; increase age of and revise various provisions.
Public high schools; revise graduation requirements and authorize pre-apprentice programs.
Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program; create.
Hope Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
College Opportunity Zone; establish in school or districts that are failing or at-risk of failing.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; create.
Universities; require to place 33% of bowl game revenue in escrow account to distribute to graduating athletes.
Open Meetings Law; prescribe civil penalty for disclosing information from executive session of a public body.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Mississippi Silver Alert System Act of 2010; create.
Tourism; create Mississippi heritage, history and culture trail.
Marriage and family therapists; allow to provide same services performed by social workers if within their scope of practice.
Hunting; provide a hunting season for children.
Education Achievement Council; establish to increase educational attainment of the state's working-age population by 2025.
Mississippi Highway 161; designate certain segment as "Dr. Aaron E. Henry Memorial Highway."
Child care facilities; require to provide parents with information about the risks of flu and availability of vaccines.
MS Persian Gulf War Memorial; transfer state-owned property to Veterans Affairs Board and create.
State-held lands; require lands held by state agencies to be titled in the name of the State of Mississippi.
Oakley Training School; change name to the "Oakley Youth Development Center."
ICCCY and State System of Care; delete repealers, expand council and define authority of council.
Appropriation; Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Appropriation; Governors Office - Division of Medicaid.
Appropriation; State Department of Health-support.
Appropriation; Department of Human Services-Consolidated.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services - Consolidated.
Sweet potato industry; authorize issuance of bonds to provide funds for disaster assistance loan guaranty program.
Bonds and economic development; authorize bonds for various purposes and provide/revise certain incentives.
Passed the House · 13
Task force to study and report on the funding and implementation of universal pre-kindergarten programs; create.
Whistleblower Law; provide for damages.
Jury selection; clarify permanent exclusion.
Willie E. "Rat" McGowan, Sr.; name Alcorn State University Baseball Park in honor of.
Mental health; modernize terminology used to refer to persons with mental retardation.
Mississippi Development Authority; require to conduct review of infrastructures in counties with high rates of poverty.
Early Voting Act; create.
Personal care homes; revise certain licensure provisions for.
Driver's license; make optional to have four-year or eight-year license.
Alternative career track programs and diplomas; require all high schools to provide.
Asthma or anaphylaxis medication; revise provisions authorizing self-administration by students.
Legal Aid for Economically Deprived Mississippians Study Panel; create.
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities.
Out of committee · 1
Tourism; authorize state bond issuance to promote state heritage, history and culture and other various tourism purposes.
In committee · 1
Bonds; authorize issuance for certain highway improvements.