Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
In committee59
Mental health; require DMH to convert unused IDD beds to be used for alcohol and drug use services.
MS Teachers' Salaries Task Force; create to recommend how state can pay teachers at southeastern average.
TANF and Medicaid; require teenage recipients of to participate in programs about birth control, abstinence and parenting.
Mississippi Comprehensive Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act; create.
Task force to address the disparity of African-American males in the judicial system; create.
Comprehensive School Health Education Program; include additional components in and require school nurse to teach.
"2021 Mississippi Youthbuild Pilot Program Act"; create with programs at Coahoma and Jones County Community Colleges.
Home economics; require to be taught in "D" and "F" rated school districts.
Misdemeanor expunction; remove age restriction.
School attendance officers; require to visit homes of certain children within 72 hours of unexcused absence.
Department of Corrections; provide certain educational programs for adult offenders.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
Economically Distressed Municipalities Development Act; create.
Nonviolent offenders; authorize reduction of sentences for passage of end-of-course subject area tests by offenders.
Socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns; establish program to encourage participation in state contracts.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new programs in middle schools.
Appropriations; Department of Employment Security for funding Summer Youth Employment Programs.
SNAP recipients; must take TABE exam and achieve certain scores before will be exempt from work requirements.
Appropriation; employment security for funding summer youth employment programs.
Summer Youth Training Employment Program; authorize school districts to establish.
Assistant Teacher Salary Waiver Grant Program; establish to authorize agreements between assistant teachers and school districts for cost of teacher preparation program.
Elections; require to be conducted by paper ballot or with optical mark reading equipment.
Same day voter registration; authorize.
Marijuana possession; provide civil penalty for.
Elementary professional school counselors; allocate funds under Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Assistant teachers; provide annual salary supplement in C, D and F school districts.
School districts; require certain policies and alternative curriculum if accountability rating at three lowest levels.
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.
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.
State Board of Education; require to develop curriculum and implement programs of conflict resolution.
SNAP and TANF recipients; require those unemployed to take Test of Adult Basic Education.
School attendance; require for children unable to score a 21 or higher on the ACT until the child reaches 18 years of age.
Counties and municipalities; authorize establishment of summer youth work programs.
School curriculum; require teaching of certain high school subjects in "C", "D" and "F" rated districts.
Teacher salaries; authorize supplement for teachers in critical shortage subject areas in D and F districts.
Community and junior colleges; waive all tuition and costs for graduates of Mississippi high schools.
State employees; provide for pay raise based on the amount of their annual salaries.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of certain electronic devices and educational software during the last weekend in July.
Felony expunction; revise age to obtain to conform to revisions.
Online voter registration; authorize for first-time registrants.
Medicaid; provide coverage for community-based home-visitation and pregnancy support services.
Medicaid; provide coverage for substance abuse and mental health services for pregnant and postpartum women.
Medicaid; provide continued eligibility for eligible women for up to 12 months postpartum.
Department of Corrections; increase per diem rate paid to regionals for housing of state offenders.
Medicaid; covered family planning services shall include coverage for long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods.
Medicaid; increase reimbursement rate for preventative dental services for 3 fiscal years.
Medicaid; provide same services to children with ADHD as those provided to children with autism.
"Ban-the-Box Act"; create to prohibit public employers from using criminal history as a bar to employment.
Mississippi Fair Housing Act; create.
DHS; develop process to ensure that subgrantees reflect the demographic makeup of the eligible population for the grants.
IHL; continue annual deposits into Ayers Settlement Fund for 10 years and end reductions to Ayers Endowment Trust.
CON; authorize for nursing home in Jones County.
Appropriation; employment security for funding summer youth employment programs.
Suffrage; restore to James Clarence McCray of Jones County.
Suffrage; restore to Edna Barnett of Jones County.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
State flag; shall be the design recommended by the Commission to Redesign the State Flag and approved in the November 2020 election.
Passed the House · 1
Appropriation; additional to DFA for purchases of new state flags for state buildings and offices.
In committee · 1
Appropriation; Department of Mental Health for additional funding for community health centers to expand outpatient services for former inmates.