Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
Became law1
Memorial highway; designate segments of Interstate 59 in Jones County as "Arwilla Huff Davison Memorial Highway".
Out of committee1
Municipalities; require minutes to be automatically valid after 30 days.
In committee60
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; create.
Health screening; require annually for Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Plan recipients and participants.
Health Disparities Council; create.
Mississippi Comprehensive Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
Medicaid; require participation in a medical home and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
Universities; require to place 33% of bowl game revenue in escrow account to distribute to graduating athletes.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
CON; issue for nursing home in Jones County.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Nursing schools and programs; make eligible for funding to increase faculty if increase enrollment proportionately.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
School tax; authorize exemption for retail sales of certain electronic devices, educational software, textbooks and other school-related supplies.
Hope Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law and under CHIP.
Elementary school counselors; allocate funds under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
Small business health insurance pool; create.
Appropriation; Mississippi Development Authority to fund minority disparity study.
Public assistance; require fathers of children receiving to participate in DHS Responsible Fatherhood Initiative program.
Open meetings law; create civil penalty for disclosing information from executive session of public body.
Health insurance; require providers to allow children under 30 who are veterans to be covered under parent's policy.
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; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail, and prohibit face-to-face requirement.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund administered by the State Department of Education.
Medicaid; provide for a database of electronic medical records of Medicaid recipients, with access by Medicaid providers.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
Appropriation; Health Department for additional funds for Office of Health Disparity Elimination.
Nursing education; require community colleges to offer online program for LPNs to obtain associate degree in.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts.
Ammunition; require record keeping of sales.
Nutritional chart; require to be displayed prominently in school cafeteria.
Nonviolent offenders; authorize reduction of sentences for passage of end-of-course subject area tests by the offenders.
Engineering studies scholarship program; establish.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients & others.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare video with nutrition and healthy eating information for benefit recipients.
Inmate collect phone calls; require rates to be set at a certain flat rate.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
Cell phones; prohibit while driving.
Insurance companies; require to offer property and casualty insurance if offered in another state.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of cursive writing.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of manuscript handwriting.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
"MS Save Our Children Act"; create.
Inmate canteen services; require Department of Corrections to submit RFP for.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.
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.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Crimes; revise expunction of certain convictions.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
Implied consent; refusal of breath test for second or subsequent offense under zero tolerance constitutes adult offense.
"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.
Pre-kindergarten; require Department of Education to create the "ABC Program" to provide instruction via Internet.
Hotel renovation projects sales tax incentive; authorize for certain projects.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Medical radiation technologists; extend repealers on registration statutes.
Student attendance; allow excused absence for those participating in 4-H & FFA sponsored events not to exceed five per academic year.
MS Development Authority Job Training Grant Fund; create to provide job training grants for certain eligible business enterprises.
MS Accountability and Transparency Act; require detailed description of expenditures of bond proceeds on website.
Mississippi Highway 15; designate certain bridge in Chickasaw County as the "Representative William E. 'Billy' Bowles Memorial Bridge".
Sales and income tax; authorize extensions of examination period by agreement between the Commissioner of Revenue and the taxpayer.
Ms State Veterans' Home; designate home in Kosciusko as the "Brigadier General Martha Jo Leslie Mississippi State Veterans' Home".
Historic property income tax credit; authorize the transfer, sale or assignment of the credit.
Acupuncture Practice Act; extend repealer on.
Group purchasing programs by certain public hospitals and regional mental health centers; extend repealer on authority to participate in.
State agencies; require to provide legislative update section on their websites.
State agencies and departments; require to file report with DFA of all transactions for conveyances of real property.
Memorial bridge; designate certain bridge in Adams County as "Veterans Memorial Bridge".
Passed the House · 17
Emergency management; designate area in Haley Barbour Building as the "MCDEMA Memorial Wall."
MS Transportation Commission; authorize to donate real property in Perry County, Mississippi, to U.S. Forest Service.
Mental Health; allow board to sell 3 buildings at East MS State Hospital and lease them back by lease-purchase.
Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection Law; repeal.
Bonds; authorize issuance for construction of new School of Medicine classroom building at University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Financial literacy curriculum; require State Board of Education to revise grades for which offered.
Public safety; require MEMA to establish statewide planning and mapping system.
Sales tax law; provide that permit to engage in business issued under is valid for one year unless renewed.
Mississippi Student Forgivable Loan Programs; consolidate and clarify terms and conditions of.
Public purchasing laws; provide exemption from bid requirements for fuel purchases for certain machinery and equipment.
University Research Center; require report compiling and analyzing costs associated with certain reductions in state revenue.
Emergency aid to Local Governments Loan and Grant Program; transfer administration of to MEMA.
Emergency Management; define certain terms and authorize MEMA to expend funds for public preparedness and mitigation.
U.S. Highway 61; designate segment in Warren County as "The Purple Heart Trail."
Family protection specialists and workers; require training in legal duties to protect rights of persons being investigated.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers that employ veterans.
Bonds; authorize issuance for road improvements in oil producing counties & create income tax credit for new oil production jobs.
In committee · 6
Community colleges; enact uniform rules for the sale or disposal of personal property owned by the community college.
Voting machines; require all to be stored in one location that is chosen by election commissioners.
School employee salaries and wages; require December payment to be paid by last working day of the month.
Contractors; provide method to receive payment when services have been terminated.
Dialysis treatment; require facilities providing to maintain backup power supply for dialysis machines.
The Family Forward Act; enact.