Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
Passed the House3
Post-Conviction Relief; revise.
Delinquency of a minor; provide that those who cause minors to sell drugs or join gangs contribute to.
Children's services and programs; require all state agencies to provide information relating to such in a list to the Legislature.
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Food, toiletry items and undergarments; prohibit ban of by the Department of Corrections if subjected to a search.
Department of Corrections; provide certain educational programs for adult offenders.
Inmate collect phone calls; require rates to be set at a certain flat rate.
Municipal minutes; revise procedure for making valid.
RFP for administration of inmate canteen services; require certain standards for pricing of canteen items.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts.
Mississippi Comprehensive Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
Health screening; require annually for Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Plan recipients and participants.
SNAP recipients; must take TABE exam and achieve certain scores before will be exempt from work requirements.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare video with nutrition and healthy eating information for benefit recipients.
CON; issue for nursing home in Jones County.
Public benefits; require drug testing for all recipients of state or local funded benefits.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients & others.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
Nutritional chart; require to be displayed prominently in school cafeteria.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Nursing education; require community colleges to offer online program for LPNs to obtain associate degree in.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Medicaid; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail, and prohibit face-to-face requirement.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
Medicaid; require participation in a medical home and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
Medicaid; provide for a database of electronic medical records of Medicaid recipients, with access by Medicaid providers.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care law and under CHIP.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.
Universities; require to place 33% of bowl game revenue in escrow account to distribute to graduating athletes.
Hotel renovation projects sales tax incentive; authorize for certain projects.
Health Disparities Council; create.
Children's Resource Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
Insurance companies; require to offer property and casualty insurance if offered in another state.
Workers' Compensation; require death benefits payments to next-of-kin if no dependents exist.
Small business health insurance pool; create.
Compulsory School Attendance Law; authorize youth court to order students to perform community service for unlawful absences.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
Home economics; require to be taught in "D" and "F" rated school districts.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of manuscript handwriting.
"Dream Makers Program"; create as an after-school program for students in Grades 7 and 8.
School districts; require certain policies and alternative curriculum if accountability rating at three lowest levels.
Engineering studies scholarship program; establish.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
School attendance; require for children who cannot score a 21 or higher on ACT until the child reaches 18 years of age.
"Mississippi Save Our Children Act"; create.
Prekindergarten; require State Department of Education to create "ABC Program" to provide.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
First Grade; allow any child who turns six during calendar year to start at the beginning of school year.
Eleventh Grade students; require to take adult basic education High School Equivalency Diploma test for senior privilege eligibility.
School attendance officers; require to visit home of certain children within 72 hours of unexcused absence.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty; create.
HOPE Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of cursive writing.
Public assistance; require fathers of children receiving to participate in DHS Responsible Fatherhood Initiative program.
Expunction; revise which offenses are eligible.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
Nursing schools and programs; make eligible for funding to increase faculty if enrollment increases proportionately.
Affidavit ballots; revise procedures regulating.
Elections; require employers to let employees certain time off to vote in.
"21st Century Mississippi Training Initiative"; establish to increase access to college and career readiness.
Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; revise certain provisions regarding leisure and recreation districts.
Nonviolent offenders; authorize reduction of sentences for passage of end-of-course subject area tests by the offenders.
Felony expungement; authorize for first time offenses.
Felony expungement; revise age.
Ammunition; require record-keeping of sales for.
Will registry; require chancery clerk to maintain.
Elementary professional school counselors; allocate funds under Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
School districts; prohibit from paying certain monies to MHSAA or like association for participation in playoff games.
State Board of Education; require to develop curriculum and implement programs of conflict resolution.
DHS; seek waivers to implement system to limit SNAP food purchases to percent of food groups in federal nutrition guide.
Child support payments; require DHS recipients of to provide list of expenditures.
Mississippi Retail Marijuana Code; create for the licensing and regulation of retail marijuana establishments.
Appropriation; Mississippi Development Authority to fund minority disparity study.
Appropriation; Health Department for additional funds for Office of Health Disparity Elimination.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund administered by the State Department of Education.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of certain electronics devices and school related supplies.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Ad valorem taxes; revise provisions for counties and municipalities.
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At-risk youth; authorize Community-Based Placement Pilot Program in certain counties.
Parole and Post-release supervision; make various revisions regarding.
Women's Economic Security Act; create.
MS Critical Needs School District Tax Deduction Act of 2017; create.
MS Critical Needs School District Tax Credit Act of 2017; create.