Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
In committee85
Patent confirmation process; fees and costs associated with shall not be more than amount for which the land was purchased.
Motivating Parents and Children (M.P.A.C.) Pilot Program; establish within State Department of Education.
Early Voting Act; create.
Eleventh Grade students; require to take GED or High School Equivalency Test for senior early release privilege eligibility.
School curriculum; require students to receive additional instruction in healthy living.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
The Crown Act; create to include property sales.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal Affordable Care Act and under CHIP.
Children's Advocacy Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
Mississippi Development Authority; require to conduct review of infrastructures in counties with high rates of poverty.
Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program; create under State Department of Education.
Mississippi High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2023; create.
Elementary professional school counselors; allocate funds under Mississippi Adequate Education Program for.
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.
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.
Earned-discharge credits; authorize offenders on probation/parole to earn for participation in faith-based activities.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
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.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Pre-kindergarten; require Department of Education to create the "ABC Program" to provide instruction via Internet.
Sales tax; exempt certain retail sales of electronic devices/educational software and sales of feminine hygiene products.
Medicaid; provide coverage for substance abuse and mental health services for pregnant and postpartum women.
School curriculum; require teaching of certain high school subjects in "C", "D" and "F" rated districts.
Hope Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
"Mississippi Save Our Children Act"; create.
Mathematic and science instruction; enhance through new middle school programs.
Engineering Studies Scholarship Program; establish.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
Vision 2030: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Thirty; create.
Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement Act; create.
First Grade; allow any child who turns six during the calendar year to start at the beginning of school year.
Sales tax; exempt on retail sales of certain electronic devices.
Delinquency of a minor; include causing a child to violate the Uniform Controlled Substances Law as.
Subsequent offense; revise how a first offense is calculated.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create for administration of pre-ACT assessments in public schools.
Social workers; provide in schools having high incidences of crime and via video conferencing means.
Professional School Counselors Pilot Program; establish in certain school districts with high incidences of teen pregnancy or school violence.
Mathematics and science; require public middle schools to provide program to enhance instruction in.
Early Commitment to College Program; establish in schools and districts assigned an "F" accountability rating.
Parolees who participate in faith-based or faith-based sponsored activities; authorize reduction of time spent on probation.
DHS; direct to reinstate program of providing meals to older individuals in community setting.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Voting rights; restore upon satisfaction of all of the sentencing requirements of a conviction.
"Mississippi Senior Cadets Program"; require State Department of Education to establish.
Healthcare Coordinating Council; reconstitute and require to make report on specific health goals for the state.
Felony expunction; revise age to obtain to conform to revisions.
Online voter registration; authorize for first-time registrants.
Mississippi Fair Housing Act; create.
Marijuana possession; provide civil penalty for.
"Ban-the-Box Act"; create to prohibit public employers from using criminal history as a bar to employment.
Pre-kindergarten program; require Department of Education to create "ABC Program" to provide instruction via Internet.
Comprehensive sex education; require teaching of in Grades K-12.
Department of Corrections; increase per diem rate paid to regionals for housing of state offenders.
Assistant teachers; provide annual salary supplement in "C," "D" and "F" school districts.
Teacher salaries; authorize supplement for teachers in critical shortage subject areas in "D" and "F" districts.
MS Teachers' Salaries Task Force; create to recommend how state can pay teachers at southeastern average.
Community and junior colleges; waive all tuition and costs for graduates of Mississippi high schools.
Mental health; require DMH to convert unused IDD beds to be used for alcohol and drug use services.
Juneteenth National Independence Day; designate as a legal holiday in the State of Mississippi.
Municipal election commissioners; revise appointments of.
Appropriation; Department of Health for upgrades and improvements to infrastructure at county health departments.
Appropriation; DFA for distribution to counties and municipalities for water/sewer infrastructure projects authorized under ARPA.
Appropriation; Department of Mental Health for increasing alcohol and drug rehabilitation beds and crisis intervention teams.
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.
Assistant Teacher Salary Waiver Grant Program; create to help assistant teachers to become licensed.
Same-day voter registration; authorize.
Summer Youth Training Employment Program; authorize school districts to establish.
Former collegiate athlete scholarship program; create to attract former athletes back to school for teaching degree.
"2023 Mississippi Youthbuild Pilot Program Act"; create with programs at Coahoma and Jones County Community Colleges.
Appropriation; employment security for funding summer youth employment programs.
Counties and municipalities; authorize establishment of summer youth work programs.
Medicaid; extend coverage for eligible women for 12 months postpartum.
"Dream Makers Program"; create as an after-school program for students in Grades 7 and 8.
Homework; require teachers to incorporate daily and weekly assignments into their curriculum.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare video with nutrition and healthy eating information for benefit recipients.
IHL; continue annual deposits into Ayers Settlement Fund for 10 years and end reductions to Ayers Endowment Trust.
State employees; provide for pay raise based on the amount of their annual salaries.
DHS; develop process to ensure that subgrantees reflect the demographic makeup of the eligible population for the grants.
CON; authorize for nursing home in Jones County.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
David R. Huggins and Tom Weathersby; revise names of public buildings to include.
Bob Tyler Fish Hatchery; designate the fish hatchery located in North Mississippi as.
Passed the House · 1
Sam G. Polles State Office Building; designate the MS Dept. of Wildlife Central Office Building as.
In committee · 4
Child care; DHS shall transfer to CCDF the first $40 Million of unspent TANF funds from prior FY to be used for child care vouchers.
Child care services; provide eligibility for certain persons under the Child Care Payment Program (CCPP).
Department of Mental Health and community health centers; expand outpatient services for certain formerly incarcerated state inmates.
Sales tax; reduce rate on retail sales of certain food.