Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
In committee62
Children's Resource Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
Inmate collect phone calls; require rates to be set at a certain flat rate.
Health Disparities Council; create.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Crimes; revise expunction of certain convictions.
School tax; authorize exemption for retail sales of certain electronic devices, educational software, textbooks and other school-related supplies.
School districts; require certain policies if accredited at three lowest levels and alternative curriculum.
Hope Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
"Dream Makers Program"; create as an after-school program for students in Grades 7 and 8.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Elementary school counselors; allocate funds under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
Prekindergarten; require State Department of Education to create "ABC Program" to provide instruction via the Internet.
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.
Medicaid; require participation in a medical home and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
Mississippi Comprehensive Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
CON; issue for nursing home in Jones County.
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.
Medicaid; provide for a database of electronic medical records of Medicaid recipients, with access by Medicaid providers.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law and under CHIP.
Appropriation; Mississippi Development Authority to fund minority disparity study.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts.
Medicaid; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail, and prohibit face-to-face requirement.
Ammunition; require record-keeping of sales.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
Small business health insurance pool; create.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; create.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
Nonviolent offenders; authorize reduction of sentences for passage of end-of-course subject area tests by the offenders.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
Appropriation; Health Department for additional funds for Office of Health Disparity Elimination.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
"Mississippi Save Our Children Act"; create.
Hotel renovation projects sales tax incentive; authorize for certain projects.
Inmate canteen services; require Department of Corrections to submit RFP for.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients & others.
Nutritional chart; require to be displayed prominently in school cafeteria.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare video with nutrition and healthy eating information for benefit recipients.
Engineering studies scholarship program; establish.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of manuscript handwriting.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of cursive writing.
Insurance companies; require to offer property and casualty insurance if offered in another state.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund administered by the State Department of Education.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
Children's services and programs; require all state agencies to provide information relating to such in a list to the Legislature.
Public assistance; require fathers of children receiving to participate in DHS Responsible Fatherhood Initiative program.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
Department of Corrections; provide certain educational programs for adult offenders.
Walnut Grove Correctional Facility; provide certain education be provided to offenders at.
Food, toiletry items and undergarments; prohibit ban of by the Department of Corrections if subjected to a search.
Inmate collect phone calls; require rates to be set at a certain flat rate.
Public benefits; require drug testing for all recipients of state or local funded benefits.
Municipal minutes; revise how such shall be made valid.
Open meetings law; create civil penalty for disclosing information from executive session of public body.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Memorial highways; designate segment in Clay County as the "Representative David Gibbs Memorial Highway".
Passed the House · 1
Municipalities; revise authority to clean menaced property.
Out of committee · 1
Guardian ad litem; clarify duties and appointment.
In committee · 19
Tuition waiver; provide for certain foster and adopted children and wards of the state to attend a state-supported IHL.
Adequate Education Program; increase adjustment to base student cost for at-risk students.
School social workers and psychologists; authorize districts to employ and receive partial state reimbursement for salaries.
MAEP; define "at-risk pupil" and include a child diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
Trimester School Year Pilot Program; establish.
School curriculum; require comprehensive Mississippi history course for public school students in Grade 9.
Counties; authorize to pay poll workers mileage.
County court serving as youth court; clarify that court may appoint a guardian ad litem.
Expunction; revise.
Drug courts; revise participation requirements.
Identity theft; establish procedure for victim to have debt forgiven and credit reports purged.
Employee wages; require to be paid equally for women and men.
Juneteenth Freedom Day; designate as day of commemoration, not paid legal holiday.
Housing repair grant program; authorize issuance of bonds to provide funds for grants to low income individuals for home repair.
Housing Loan Assistance Pilot Program; create.
State employees with certain licenses; require to be paid same as other state employees with license if certain skills used.
Mississippi Skill Standards Board; create as advisory board on industry standards.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for public school capital improvements.
Income tax; exclude overtime compensation from gross income.