Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
In committee63
Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program and the Parents' Bill of Rights; 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.
Mississippi Save our Children Act; create to require programs in certain school districts.
Mississippi Senior Cadets Program; establish in State Department of Education.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
"Dream Makers Program"; create as an after-school program for students in Grades 7 and 8.
School curriculum; require students to receive additional instruction in healthy living.
Outdoor advertising; prohibit promoting or marketing alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and fast food in certain areas.
Comprehensive sex education; require to be taught in Grades K 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.
Environmental contamination; require DEQ to test for upon request and local government to clean up.
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.
Healthcare Coordinating Council; require to make a report on specific health goals for the state.
Minority set-aside; revise qualifications of eligibility for obtaining purchasing contracts under.
Pre-kindergarten; require Department of Education to create the "ABC Program" to provide instruction via Internet.
Teacher scholarships; authorize for college graduates for additional courses required for teacher licensure.
Preexisting condition; prohibit abuse-related medical condition from being.
Mississippi High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2012; create.
Random drug tests; require of all public school students in Grades 6 through 12.
Early Commitment to College Program; authorize for underperforming school districts.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts by.
Medicaid; require participation in medical home concept and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
Mississippi Comprehensive Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
Universities; require to place 33% of bowl game revenue in escrow account to distribute to graduating athletes.
Health screening; require annually for Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Plan recipients and participants.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
Public assistance; require fathers of children receiving to participate in DHS Responsible Fatherhood Initiative program.
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.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; create.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
Elementary school counselors; allocate funds under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
Appropriation; Mississippi Development Authority to fund minority disparity study.
School districts; require policies if accredited at the three lowest levels and alternate curriculum.
Open Meetings Law; create civil penalty for disclosing information from executive session of public body.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
Health insurance; require providers to allow children under 30 who are veterans to be covered under parent's policy.
Nursing schools and programs; make eligible for funding to increase faculty if increase enrollment proportionately.
Nursing education; require community colleges to offer online program for LPNs to obtain associate degree in.
Crimes; revise expunction of certain convictions.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
Charter schools; authorize all public schools to seek to convert to charter status.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund administered by the State Department of Education.
Medicaid; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail, and prohibit face-to-face requirement.
Small business health insurance pool; create.
CON; issue for nursing home in Jones County.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
Health Disparities Council; create.
Appropriation; Health Department for additional funds for Office of Health Disparity Elimination.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Protest at funerals; revise penalties.
Children's Resource Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
Children's services and programs; require all state agencies to provide information relating to such in a list to the Legislature.
Medicaid; provide for a database of electronic medical records of Medicaid recipients, with access by Medicaid providers.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
New Capitol; Archives and History employ a Curator of the Capitol to oversee, approve and monitor care of.
Out of committee · 1
Crime Victims Bill of Rights; victim has right to receive copy of initial incident report.
In committee · 4
Financial Literacy Programs; expand grades in which school districts may implement.
School guidance counselors; establish pilot program in certain school districts with high incidences of teen pregnancy or school violence.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; create and provide certain tax incentives for qualified businesses located in.
Appropriation; Commission on the Status of Women.