Bills in the 2016 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
Became law1
Memorial highway; revise certain segment of Highway 59.
In committee80
School attendance officers; require to visit home of certain children within 72 hours of unexcused absence.
Eleventh Grade Students; require to take adult basic education High School Equivalency Diploma test for senior privilege eligibility.
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.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of cursive writing.
Nutritional chart; require to be displayed prominently in school cafeteria.
First Grade; allow any child who turns six during calendar year to start at the beginning of school year.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
Insurance companies; require to offer property and casualty insurance if offered in another state.
Children's services and programs; require all state agencies to provide information relating to such in a list to the Legislature.
Nursing education; require community colleges to offer online program for LPNs to obtain associate degree in.
Universities; require to place 33% of bowl game revenue in escrow account to distribute to graduating athletes.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Nursing schools and programs; make eligible for funding to increase faculty if increase enrollment proportionately.
Department of Corrections; provide certain educational programs for adult offenders.
Children's Resource Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
"Mississippi Save Our Children Act"; create.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Engineering studies scholarship program; establish.
Inmate collect phone calls; require rates to be set at a certain flat rate.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare video with nutrition and healthy eating information for benefit recipients.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients & others.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
Medicaid; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail, and prohibit face-to-face requirement.
Medicaid; require participation in a medical home and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care law and under CHIP.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
Medicaid; provide for a database of electronic medical records of Medicaid recipients, with access by Medicaid providers.
Walnut Grove Correctional Facility; require certain education be provided to offenders at.
Inmate collect phone calls; require rates to be set at a certain flat rate.
Health Disparities Council; create.
Mississippi Comprehensive Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts.
Health screening; require annually for Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Plan recipients and participants.
CON; issue for nursing home in Jones County.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund administered by the State Department of Education.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
Appropriation; Health Department for additional funds for Office of Health Disparity Elimination.
Compulsory School Attendance Law; authorize youth court to order students to perform community service for unlawful absences.
Public assistance; require fathers of children receiving to participate in DHS Responsible Fatherhood Initiative program.
Tax exemption; authorize for retail sale of certain electronic devices and school related supplies.
Appropriation; Mississippi Development Authority to fund minority disparity study.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Hotel renovation projects sales tax incentive; authorize for certain projects.
Small business health insurance pool; create.
Municipal minutes; revise how such shall be made valid.
Ammunition; require record-keeping of sales.
Felony expungement; authorize for first time offenses.
Felony expungement; revise age.
Nonviolent offenders; authorize reduction of sentences for passage of end-of-course subject area tests by the offenders.
Open meetings law; create civil penalty for disclosing information from executive session of public body.
Will registry; require chancery clerk to maintain.
Expunction; revise which offenses are eligible.
Conviction; clarify subsequent for certain crimes and post conviction relief.
Food, toiletry items and undergarments; prohibit ban of by the Department of Corrections if subjected to a search.
Affidavit ballots; revise procedures regulating.
Elections; require employers to let employees certain time off to vote in.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; create.
Home economics; require to be taught in D and F rated school districts.
DFA; require to maintain infrastructure.
"21st Century Mississippi Training Instiative," establish to increase access to college and career readiness.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
School districts; require certain policies if accredited at three lowest levels and alternative curriculum.
"Dream Makers Program"; create as an after-school program for students in Grades 7 and 8.
HOPE Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
Prekindergarten; require State Department of Education to create "ABC Program" to provide instruction via the Internet.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
Elementary professional school counselors; allocate funds under Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
School attendance; require for children who cannot score a 21 or higher on ACT until the child reaches 18 years of age.
SNAP recipients; must take TABE exam and achieve certain scores before will be exempt from work requirements.
Workers' Compensation; require death benefits payments to next-of-kin if no dependents exist.
Delinquency of a minor; provide that those who cause minors to sell drugs or join gangs contribute to.
RFP for administration of inmate canteen services; require certain standards for pricing of canteen items.
Bonds; authorize general obligation bonds to repair and renovate the Natchez Seminary Property.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
2016 First Extraordinary Session · Economic development; provide incentives for certain economic development projects.
State buildings; rename the PERS building as the "Timothy Alan (Tim) Ford Building."
Memorial highway ; designate segment of Mississippi Highway 182 in the City of Columbus as the "Rep. Esther M. Harrison Memorial Highway."
In committee · 6
Home schooled students; authorize participation in public school extracurricular activities.
Student grades; enhance penalty imposed on school districts for influencing falsification of.
School term; prohibit public schools from opening before Labor Day.
ADHD medications; provider must have second opinion and provide information to parents before prescribing.
Memorial bridge; designate certain bridge on Highway 50 as the "Senator Bennie L. Turner Memorial Bridge."
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with making road and street improvements near Jackson State University.