Bills in the 2018 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Conviction; clarify subsequent for certain crimes and post-conviction relief.
In committee81
Hotel renovation projects sales tax incentive; authorize for certain projects.
Nursing education; require community colleges to offer online program for LPNs to obtain associate degree in.
Workers' Compensation; require death benefits payments to next-of-kin if no dependents exist.
Felony expungement; authorize for first time offenses.
RFP for administration of inmate canteen services; require certain standards for pricing of canteen items.
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.
School districts; require certain policies and alternative curriculum if accountability rating at three lowest levels.
"Mississippi Save Our Children Act"; create.
Prekindergarten; require State Department of Education to create "ABC Program" to provide.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
Insurance companies; require to offer property and casualty insurance if offered in another state.
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.
Writing curriculum; require SBE to establish curriculum for the teaching of cursive writing.
Ammunition; require record-keeping of sales for.
School districts; prohibit from paying certain monies to MHSAA or like associations for participation in playoff games.
State Board of Education; require to develop curriculum and implement programs of conflict resolution.
Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for the State of Mississippi; create.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
HOPE Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
SNAP recipients; must take TABE exam and achieve certain scores before will be exempt from work requirements.
"21st Century Mississippi Training Initiative"; establish to increase access to college and career readiness.
Home economics; require to be taught in "D" and "F" rated school districts.
Affidavit ballots; revise procedures regulating.
Felony expungement; revise age.
Food, toiletry items and undergarments sent to inmates; prohibit ban of by Department of Corrections if subjected to a search.
Universities and colleges; require to place 33% of bowl game revenue in escrow account to distribute to graduating athletes.
Children's services and programs; require all state agencies to provide information relating to such in a list to the Legislature.
Children's Resource Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
Elementary professional school counselors; allocate funds under Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
Appropriation; Health Department for additional funds for Office of Health Disparity Elimination.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
Health Disparities Council; create.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
Public benefits; require drug testing for all recipients of state or local funded benefits.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of certain electronics devices and school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Mississippi Retail Marijuana Code; create for the licensing and regulation of retail marijuana establishments.
Delinquency of a minor; provide that those who cause minors to sell drugs or join gangs contribute to.
School attendance; require for children who cannot score a 21 or higher on ACT until the child reaches 18 years of age.
SNAP & TANF recipients; require those unemployed to take Test of Adult Basic Education.
Ad valorem taxes; exempt portion of value of real property located in a municipality from county levy.
Mississippi Comprehensive Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
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.
Medicaid; require participation in a medical home and require obese persons to participate in online program on obesity.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
Department of Corrections; provide certain educational programs for adult offenders.
Public assistance; require fathers of children receiving to participate in DHS Responsible Fatherhood Initiative program.
Medicaid; children under age 18 in foster care are eligible for.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund administered by the State Department of Education.
Elementary school curriculum; require instruction in manuscript (as well as cursive) handwriting.
School nutrition; require school districts to serve low-fat meals and snacks to students diagnosed as overweight.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Body mass index (BMI); require schools to collect for certain students and provide to parents with an explanation.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts.
Elections; require employers to let employees certain time off to vote in.
DHS; seek waivers to implement system to limit SNAP food purchases to percent of food groups in federal nutrition guide.
Medicaid; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail, and prohibit face-to-face requirement.
Eleventh Grade students; require to take GED or High School Equivalency Test for senior early release privilege eligibility.
Compulsory school attendance; require youth court petition to be filed after third unlawful absence and authorize imposition of community service for violations.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
First grade enrollment; allow child who turns six on or before December 31 of certain year to start at the beginning of that school year.
School attendance officers; require to visit home of certain children within 72 hours of unexcused absence.
Nursing schools and programs; make eligible for funding to increase faculty if enrollment increases proportionately.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
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.
Inmate collect phone calls; require rates to be set at a certain flat rate.
Municipal minutes; revise procedure for making valid.
Nonviolent offenders; authorize reduction of sentences for passage of end-of-course subject area tests by the offenders.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care law and under CHIP.
Appropriation; Mississippi Development Authority to fund minority disparity study.
Health screening; require annually for Medicaid, CHIP and State Health Plan recipients and participants.
Small business health insurance pool; create.
CON; issue for nursing home in Jones County.
Will registry; require chancery clerk to maintain.
Child support payments; require DHS recipients of to provide list of expenditures.
Expunction; revise which offenses are eligible.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
2018 First Extraordinary Session · Mississippi Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2018; create.