Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
In committee46
Medicaid; provide coverage for services furnished under a PACE program.
Assistant Teacher Salary Waiver Grant Program; establish to authorize agreements between assistant teachers and school districts for cost of teacher preparation program.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of certain electronic devices and school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Elementary professional school counselors; allocate funds under Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
CON; authorize for nursing home in Jones County.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
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.
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.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
Nonviolent offenders; authorize reduction of sentences for passage of end-of-course subject area tests by offenders.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Voting rights; restore upon satisfaction of all the sentencing requirements of a conviction.
Felony expunction; revise age to obtain to conform to revisions.
School attendance; require for children unable to score a 21 or higher on the ACT until the child reaches 18 years of age.
State Board of Education; require to develop curriculum and implement programs of conflict resolution.
Department of Corrections; provide certain educational programs for adult offenders.
School attendance officers; require to visit homes 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.
First grade enrollment; allow child who turns six on or before December 31 to start at beginning of that school year.
Home economics; require to be taught in "D" and "F" rated school districts.
Appropriations; Department of Employment Security for funding Summer Youth Employment Programs.
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.
Same day voter registration; authorize.
Summer Youth Training Employment Program; authorize school districts to establish.
Elections; require to be conducted by paper ballot or with optical mark reading equipment.
Corrections State Grand Jury Act; create.
Mississippi Medical Marijuana Act of 2020; create.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Town of Shubuta with improvements to Town Hall building.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist National Oak Park Alumni Association with improvements to its Alumni House in Laurel.
Bonds; authorize issuance for repair and renovation of former Southside High School in Heidelberg.
Criminal offense; revise definition of second or subsequent offense.
Post-conviction relief; authorize successive application when new state law would have adversely affected outcome.
Mississippi Medical Marijuana Act of 2020; create.
Summer Youth Work Program Act; create to authorize municipalities and counties to establish youth work programs.
2020 Mississippi Youthbuild Pilot Program Act; create with programs at Coahoma and Jones County Community Colleges.
Appropriation; Medicaid increase funded slots for elderly and Disabled Waiver and Traumatic Brain Injury Waiver programs.
Appropriation; employment security for funding summer youth employment programs.
Appropriation; Department of Corrections for employing additional maintenance staff and for repairs to Unit 29 at the State Penitentiary.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Public property; provide for extinguishment of reverter clause on certain real property upon transfer to the National Park Service.
Clarke County; authorize contribution to the Multi-County Community Service Agency, Inc.
State Flag; revise with a commission and require words "In God We Trust."
Passed the House · 3
Tribal identification cards; recognize as legal means of personal identification.
Armed Services Absentee Voting Law; expand definition of "absent voter" to include those working in federal waters of United States.
Tribal regalia; prohibit governmental entity from restricting wear.
In committee · 22
"Keeping Our Municipalities Clean Pretrial Intervention Act"; create.
Officer-involved death; require investigation and appointment of special prosecutor.
Parole eligibility; provide for offender who commits crime before the age of 26 after serving certain percentage of sentence.
Absentee ballots; revise those who are authorized to vote by.
Special Prosecutor; create procedure when DA is absent or unable to perform his or her duties.
High school curriculum; require SBE to develop for instruction in civics and home economics.
State employees; provide for across-the-board increase in annual salaries of.
Assistant teachers; increase minimum base salary to $21,732.00, equivalent to the Southeastern average for.
African-American Studies and Racial Diversity; require SDE to develop curriculum for implementation in public high school.
Driver's license; revise certain requirements and create certificate for driving.
Driver's license; authorize hardship license for persons out of compliance for order of support or suspended due to incarceration.
Disenfranchising crimes; clarify those that qualify as.
Fresh Start Act; revised certain portions of.
Expungement; remove certain types of embezzlement from list of excluded crimes.
Driver's license; authorize issuance of hardship license to persons who have their licenses suspended as a result of being out of compliance with order for support.
Land banks; authorize counties and municipalities to create to convert certain property to productive use.
Youth Unemployment Task Force; create.
Medicaid; suspend eligibility of incarcerated persons instead of terminating it.
Expungement; revise list of eligible crimes.
United States Highway 49; designate segment from Hinds County to Coahoma County as an historic highway.
State holidays; remove Robert E. Lee's birthday as legal holidays.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.