Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Post-conviction relief; authorize successive application when new state law would have adversely affected outcome.
In committee40
Department of Corrections; provide certain educational programs for adult offenders.
School attendance officers; require to visit home of certain children within 72 hours of unexcused absence.
Compulsory school attendance; require youth court petition after third unlawful absence and authorize community service for violations.
Eleventh Grade students; require to take GED or High School Equivalency Test for senior early release privilege eligibility.
SNAP and TANF recipients; require those unemployed to take Test of Adult Basic Education.
SNAP recipients; must take TABE exam and achieve certain scores before will be exempt from work requirements.
Home economics; require to be taught in "D" and "F" rated school districts.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of certain electronic devices and school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Expunction; revise which offenses are eligible.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare videos with certain information for benefit recipients and others.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Elementary professional school counselors; allocate funds under Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
CON; authorize for nursing home in Jones County.
School districts; require certain policies and alternative curriculum if accountability rating at three lowest levels.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
Mississippi Comprehensive Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
Appropriation; Recreational Facilities Activity Program Fund and administered by the State Department of Education.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts.
Nonviolent offenders; authorize reduction of sentences for passage of end-of-course subject area tests by the offenders.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
Prekindergarten; require the State Department of Education to establish the "ABC Program" to provide.
Public assistance; require fathers of children receiving to participate in DHS Responsible Fatherhood Initiative program.
State Board of Education; require to develop curriculum and implement programs of conflict resolution.
School attendance; require for children who cannot score a 21 or higher on the ACT until the child reaches 18 years of age.
First grade enrollment; allow child who turns six on or before December 31 to start at beginning of that school year.
Felony expungement; authorize for first time offenses.
Felony expungement; revise age.
Child support payments; require DHS recipients of to provide list of expenditures.
Appropriations; Employment Security for funding Summer Youth Employment Programs.
Appropriations; Employment Security for funding Summer Youth Employment Programs.
Mississippi Medical Marijuana Act of 2019; create.
Voting rights; restore upon satisfaction of all the sentencing requirements of a conviction.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Town of Shubuta with improvements to Town Hall building.
Bonds; authorize issuance for repair and renovation of former Southside High School in Heidelberg.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist National Oak Park Alumni Association with improvements to its Alumni House in Laurel.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Bonds; authorize issuance for construction of the Mississippi Center for Medically Fragile Children.
Passed the House · 1
Bonds; authorize issuance for construction of the Center for STEM Education and Advancement.
In committee · 3
Mississippi Initiative on HBCUs; create to strengthen capacity of HBCUs to provide highest quality of education.
Right to vote; restore to people who committed nonviolent disqualifying crimes upon meeting certain requirements.
Bonds; authorize issuance for improvements to the Jackson Public School District's Career Development Center.