Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
Became law1
Memorial Highway; designate a certain segment of MS Highway 528 in Jasper County as the "Will Roy Dantzler Memorial Highway."
Passed the House1
Memorial highway; bring forward section designating certain segment of Interstate Highway 59 for purpose of possible amendment.
In committee61
Nursing schools and programs; make eligible for funding to increase faculty if increase enrollment proportionately.
Nonviolent offenders; authorize reduction of sentences for passage of end-of-course subject area tests by the offenders.
Department of Corrections; provide certain educational programs for adult offenders.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
Open meetings law; create civil penalty for disclosing information from executive session of public body.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts.
Nutritional chart; require to be displayed prominently in school cafeteria.
Nursing education; require community colleges to offer online program for LPNs to obtain associate degree in.
Medicaid; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail, and prohibit face-to-face requirement.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
Universities; require to place 33% of bowl game revenue in escrow account to distribute to graduating athletes.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; create.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Health Disparities Council; create.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
Mississippi Comprehensive Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients & others.
Elementary professional school counselors; allocate funds under Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
Children's Resource Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
"Mississippi Save Our Children Act"; create.
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; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Medicaid; require participation in a medical home and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
Crimes; revise expunction of certain convictions.
Hotel renovation projects sales tax incentive; authorize for certain projects.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
Health screening; require annually for Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Plan recipients and participants.
Prekindergarten; require State Department of Education to create "ABC Program" to provide instruction via the Internet.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
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.
Inmate collect phone calls; require rates to be set at a certain flat rate.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of cursive writing.
Tax exemption; authorize for retail sale of certain electronic devices and school related supplies.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Walnut Grove Correctional Facility; provide certain education be provided to offenders at.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
"Dream Makers Program"; create as an after-school program for students in Grades 7 and 8.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund administered by the State Department of Education.
Public assistance; require fathers of children receiving to participate in DHS Responsible Fatherhood Initiative program.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare video with nutrition and healthy eating information for benefit recipients.
Hope Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
School districts; require certain policies if accredited at three lowest levels and alternative curriculum.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care law and under CHIP.
Engineering studies scholarship program; establish.
CON; issue for nursing home in Jones County.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
Children's services and programs; require all state agencies to provide information relating to such in a list to the Legislature.
Public benefits; require drug testing for all recipients of state or local funded benefits.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of manuscript handwriting.
Compulsory School Attendance Law; require certain students to provide community service for unlawful absences.
Inmate canteen services; require Department of Corrections to submit RFP for.
First grade; allow any child who turns six during calendar year to start at beginning of school year.
School attendance officers; require to visit home of certain children within 72 hours of unexcused absence.
Eleventh graders; require to take adult basic education High School Equivalency Diploma test for senior privileges.
Will registry; require chancery clerk to maintain.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Highway 15; designate certain segment in Jones County as the "Coach Morris Brown Memorial Highway."
Task Force on the Future of Gifted Education in Mississippi; create to study.
Junior colleges; repeal provisions requiring instructors to fill out affidavit of membership in organizations.
Universities; revise laws regarding enforcement officers of.
State Health Insurance Management Board; prohibit from imposing premium surcharge based on use of tobacco products.
Passed the House · 17
Memorial bridge; designate certain bridge in Lowndes County as the "Senator Terry W. Brown Memorial Bridge".
Mississippi Rural Hospital Transition and Improvement Grant Program; establish.
Commercial driver's license; exempt church-owned vehicles from definition of commercial motor vehicle for purposes of.
Income tax; authorize a credit for costs incurred for storm shelter/safe room for primary residence.
MS Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program; revise eligibility through Grade 12.
Mississippi Employer-Assisted Housing Teacher Program; revise administration of.
MAEP; determine cost of using average daily membership (ADM) in lieu of ADA with 95% threshold attendance trigger.
Broderick Rashad Danti Dixon Act; revise.
Assistant teachers; increase base salary by $1,000.00.
Public contracts; give preference to veteran-owned small businesses.
Investigational drugs; authorize physicians to prescribe to certain eligible terminally ill patients.
Mississippi Entertainment Investment Act; create.
MS University Research Authority Act; revise.
Local Governments Capital Improvements Revolving Loan Fund; extend repealer on MDA authority to use certain monies in for expenses.
Local Governments Capital Improvements Revolving Loan Program; revise term "capital improvements" to include municipal gas system improvements.
Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program; delete repealer on.
Division of Community Services; revise duties to require development of a standardize risk assessment tool and to delete repealer on.
In committee · 7
Financial Literacy Program; expand grades in which school districts may implement.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University Agriculture Programs for establishing a meat processing facility.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University for making modifications to buildings to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University Agricultural Programs to restore funding to FY 2001 level of funding.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University for renovating the Whitney Health and P.E. Complex or constructing a new academic convocation center.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University for construction of Rudolph E. Waters Academic Technology Classroom Building.
Appropriations; IHL for Alcorn State University Agricultural Programs for renovation and repair of aquaculture facility.