Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
Passed the House8
Healthcare Coordinating Council; require to make a report on specific health goals for the state.
Children's Resource Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
Mississippi Senior Cadets Program; establish in State Department of Education.
Motivating Parents and Children (M.P.A.C.) pilot program; establish within the State Department of Education.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
Protest at funerals; revise penalties.
Medicaid; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail, and prohibit face-to-face requirement.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Out of committee1
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
In committee54
Teacher scholarship; authorize for college graduates for costs of courses required for teacher licensure.
Random drug tests; require of all public school students in Grades 6 through 12.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
Mississippi Save Our Children Act; create to require programs in certain school districts.
Social workers; provide in schools having high incidences of crime via video conferencing means.
CON; issue for nursing home in Jones County.
Medicaid; provide for a database of electronic medical records of Medicaid recipients, with access by Medicaid providers.
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.
Outdoor advertising; prohibit promoting or marketing alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and fast food in certain areas.
Minority set-aside; revise qualifications of eligibility for obtaining purchasing contracts under.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
School curriculum; require students to receive additional instruction in healthy living.
Small business health insurance pool; create.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund administered by the State Department of Education.
Preexisting condition; prohibit abuse-related medical condition from being.
Children's services and programs; require all state agencies to provide information relating to such in a list to the Legislature.
"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.
Middle schools; require academic plans for students, peer mentoring and other programs.
Online learning programs; improve oversight and quality assurance of in public schools.
Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement Act; create.
Early Commitment to College Program; authorize for underperforming school districts.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; create.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
Hope Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
Charter schools; authorize all public schools to seek to convert to charter status.
Universities; require to place 33% of bowl game revenue in escrow account to distribute to graduating athletes.
Pre-kindergarten; require Department of Education to create the "ABC Program" to provide instruction via Internet.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Health Disparities Council; create.
Appropriation; Health Department for additional funds for Office of Health Disparity Elimination.
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.
School districts; require policies if accredited at the three lowest levels and alternate curriculum.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
Mississippi Comprehensive Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
Comprehensive sex education; require to be taught in Grades K through 12.
Medicaid; require participation in medical home concept and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
Health screening; require annually for Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Plan recipients and participants.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
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 Act; create.
Mississippi High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2011; create.
Open Meetings Law; prescribe civil penalty for disclosing information from executive session of public body.
Crimes; revise expunction of certain convictions.
Public assistance; require fathers of children receiving to participate in DHS Responsible Fatherhood Initiative program.
Environmental contamination; DEQ must test for upon request and local government must clean up.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts by.
Appropriation; Mississippi Development Authority to fund minority disparity study.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Counties; authorize to work on natural and man-made drainage structures.
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities.
Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force; extend the date of repeal on.
Coastal wetlands permit application; revise review period of.
Sex-related education; require local school boards to adopt a policy on and implement.
Tourism; revise definition of tourism project for purposes of tourism project sales tax incentive program.
U.S. Highway 49W; designate certain segment of in Humphreys County as "Rev. George W. Lee Memorial Highway."
Early college high schools; direct certain state education leaders to study and recommend establishment of pilot program for.
Cathinone derivatives; include in Schedule I.
Historic property tax credit; allow refund of excess amount of credit.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for construction of Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History.
Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Vetoed · 2
Uniform laws; enact Uniform Interstate Deposition and Discovery Act.
School influenza vaccination program; Health Dept apply for federal grants.
Passed the House · 12
Scholarship; create program for law students who agree to work as attorney for Mississippi Legal Services.
Vulnerable Persons Act; revise definition of "vulnerable person" to include minors 10 years old and younger and revise certain penalties.
School curriculum; authorize financial literacy curriculum in high schools.
State Longitudinal Data System; develop to establish a multiagency database.
Shrimp; revise where can be taken and clarify personal consumption.
Legal holiday; provide that Columbus Day shall be.
Identity theft; establish procedure for victim to have debt forgiven and credit reports purged.
U.S. Highway 78; designate certain segment of in Benton and Marshall Counties as "William 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway".
Juvenile Detention Reform Act of 2011; create.
Mental Health Reform Act; enact.
Electronic Prescription Adoption Act; enact.
Bonds; authorize for various projects and economic development programs.
Out of committee · 2
Child endangerment; clarify offense when perpetrator is manufacturing, selling or possessing controlled substances.
Unemployment benefits; remove one-week waiting period.
In committee · 3
Uniform laws; enact Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act.
Check cashers; reduce maximum rate of interest that may be charged for cashing checks.
Birth certificates; tribal courts shall have same authority as chancery courts to correct birth certificates of tribal members.