Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, House.
Omeria Scott
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Parolees who participate in faith-based or faith-based sponsored activities; authorize reduction of time spent on probation.
Out of committee1
Kratom; add to Schedule III of the Uniform Controlled Substance Act.
In committee121
Driver's license; authorize issuance of hardship license to persons suspended for being out of compliance with order of support.
CON; authorize for nursing home in Jones County.
Donald J. Trump Voting Rights Restoration Act; create.
Curbside voting; authorize for those voting in person absentee at registrar's office.
Municipal election commissioners; revise appointments of.
Same-day voter registration; authorize.
Voting rights; restore upon satisfaction of all of the sentencing requirements of a conviction.
Municipal executive committee; prohibit members of from campaigning for candidates on the municipal primary election ballot.
Earned-discharge credits; authorize offenders on probation/parole to earn for participation in faith-based activities.
Reverse auctions; require state agencies to publish detailed specifications on.
Online voter registration; authorize for first-time registrants.
Blank space on ballots; remove and provide supplementary ballot if a candidate is removed from race after ballots are printed.
Rx Kids Program; create to provide time-limited assistance to pregnant women during pregnancy and for 12 months after birth.
Municipal executive committee; revise procedure for filing vacancies of.
Absentee ballots; authorize executive committees to process for primary elections.
Voting rights; restore to people who have been released from incarceration.
Earned-discharge credits; authorize offenders on probation/parole to earn for participation in faith-based activities.
The Crown Act; create to include property sales.
PERS; require employers to pay percentage of contract workers' compensation into the system.
Public schools; require school boards to adopt policy on bell-to-bell cell phone prohibition.
Birth doulas; provide for certification of by Department of Health.
Midwifery; provide for licensure and regulation of.
Workers' compensation; revise amount allowed for disability or death cases.
Absentee voting; extend time allowed on Saturdays to 5:00 p.m.
Appropration; UMMC for scholarships in the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program.
Appropriation; Department of Health for implementing and operating an Obstetrics (OB) System of Care.
Schools; require online remedial education classes for students in "C" rated schools.
Expungement; revise age for misdemeanor crimes for.
Misdemeanors; revise age of expungement for.
Subsequent offense; revise how a first offense is calculated.
Delinquency of a minor; include causing a child to violate the Uniform Controlled Substances Law as.
Mississippi Fair Housing Act; create.
Children's Advocacy Commission; create to coordinate and streamline the state's efforts to provide services to children.
School attendance; require for children unable to score a 21 or higher on ACT until the child reaches 18 years of age.
Early Commitment to College Program; establish in schools and districts assigned an "F" accountability rating.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create for administration of pre-ACT assessments in public schools.
School social workers and psychologists; authorize districts to employ and receive partial state reimbursement for salaries of.
"Mississippi Universal Prekindergarten Program Act of 2026"; create.
School curriculum; require comprehensive MS History course for public school students in Grade 9.
Teacher salary supplement; provide to those with five or more years experience in successful districts willing to relocate to an "F" district.
Assistant teachers; provide "C," "D" and "F" school districts with funding for additional positions.
Schools; require musical instructors in at least one elementary school in each school district.
College and Career Readiness Planning Program; create.
Mathematics and science instruction; enhance through new middle school programs.
Hope Program; establish and develop system to re-enroll high school dropouts in programs leading to a high school diploma.
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.
"Health Careers Academy"; create for students in Grades 9 through 12.
Prekindergarten; require State 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.
School districts; require certain policies and alternative curriculum for those with the three lowest accountability ratings.
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.
Elementary professional school counselors; allocate funds under the Mississippi Student Funding Formula for.
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.
Counties and municipalities; authorize establishment of summer youth work programs.
School districts; require drug testing of students suspended for disciplinary infractions.
State employees; provide for pay raise based on the amount of their annual salaries.
Nursing education; unspent TANF funds shall be spent to pay expenses of persons enrolled as part of workforce training.
Medicaid eligibility; provide coverage of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
Assistant Teacher Salary Waiver Grant Program; create to help assistant teachers become licensed.
Sales tax; exempt on retail sales of certain electronic devices.
Tasers and stun guns; prohibit use of by law enforcement officers.
Summer Youth Training Employment Program; authorize school districts to establish.
Assistant teachers; provide annual salary supplement to those in "C", "D" and "F" school districts.
Teacher salaries; authorize supplement for teachers in critical shortage subject areas in "D" and "F" school districts.
Healthcare Coordinating Council; reconstitute and require to make report on specific health goals for the state.
Mississippi Senior Cadets Program; require State Department of Education to establish.
"Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program"; create under the State Department of Education.
Mississippi High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2026; create.
Professional School Counselors Pilot Program; establish in certain school districts with high incidences of teen pregnancy.
Social workers; provide in schools having high incidences of crime and via video conferencing means.
School curriculum; require students to receive additional instruction in healthy living.
MS Student Funding Formula; increase percentage of allotted weight attributable to low-income students.
"African-American Male Success Academy"; require the SDE to establish to cultivate diversity of social skills and academic success.
School districts; require to conduct mandatory parent meetings before the start of each school year.
Marijuana possession; provide civil penalty for.
Juneteenth National Independence Day; designate as a legal holiday in the State of Mississippi.
Mississippi Development Authority; require to conduct review of infrastructures in counties with high rates of poverty.
Marijuana; civil penalty for simple possession of 30 grams or less.
Legal holidays; designate June 19 as Juneteenth Freedom Day.
"Donald J. Trump Ban-the-Box Act"; create to prohibit public employers from using criminal history as a bar to employment.
Income tax; provide a credit for taxpayers who claim a federal income child tax credit.
Motor vehicle ad valorem tax credit; bring forward sections of law relating to.
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.
Medicaid; provide increased reimbursement rate for hospitals in counties with high unemployment and doctor shortage.
School curriculum; require teaching of certain high school subjects in "C", "D" and "F" rated districts.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide funding to federally qualified health centers.
Appropriation; Employment Security for funding summer youth employment programs.
Comprehensive sex education; require teaching of Grades K-12.
Appropriation; Department of Mental Health for increasing alcohol and drug rehabilitation beds and crisis intervention teams.
Appropriation; Employment Security for funding Summer Youth Employment Programs.
Vision 2031: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Thirty-one; create.
"2026 Mississippi Youthbuild Pilot Program Act"; create with programs at Coahoma and Jones County Community Colleges.
Motivating Parents and Children (M.P.A.C.) Pilot Program; establish within the State Department of Education.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal Affordable Care Act and under CHIP.
School districts; require drug testing of truant students in Grade 6-12.
Medicaid; expand eligibility to include individuals entitled to benefits under federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Health and human services agencies; require to prepare video with nutrition and healthy eating information for benefit recipients.
SNAP and TANF recipients; require those unemployed to take Test of Adult Basic Education.
DHS; develop process to ensure that subgrantees reflect the demographic makeup of the eligible population for the grants.
DHS; direct to reinstate program of providing meals to older individuals in community setting.
Dropout Prevention and Student Re-engagement Act; create.
Specialty Doctors to Rural Hospitals Grant Program; establish and provide eligibility.
Rural hospital transfer to major hospital; prescribe certain conditions on such transfer when doctor deems medically necessary.
Division of Medicaid; apply for waivers to eliminate waiting period for certain services.
Former Collegiate Athlete Scholarship Program; create to attract former athletes back to school for teaching degree.
African-American Resident Physician Scholarship Program; establish.
STEM Pilot Program; require SDE to create in certain school districts for students in Grades 4 through 8.
Community and junior colleges; waive all tuition and costs for graduates of Mississippi high schools.
Donald J. Trump Early Voting Act; create.
Patent confirmation process; fees and costs associated with may not be more than amount for which the land was purchased.
Crawfish and seafood labeling; authorize enforcing agencies to receive and investigate complaints of noncompliance from any person.
Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Panel; create under State Department of Health.
Health Care Trust Fund; reestablish and transfer $1 billion into.
Congregate meal programs; authorize to make hot meals available to older adults who live within 10 miles from the site.
MS Parental Responsibility Act of 2026; create to improve parental participation in schools.
Suffrage; restore to Jerome Wyatt of Jones County.
City of Laurel; revise use of the proceeds from recreation and public improvement promotion tax.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Memorial highways; designate a segment of MS Highway 537 in Jones County as the "Sgt. John Howard Tanner Memorial Highway."
Upskill Mississippi Grant Program; establish to provide last-dollar tuition assistance at community colleges for certain programs.
Health benefit plans and Medicaid; require to offer coverage for biomarker testing.
Advanced, metastatic cancer; delete repealer on prohibition against health plans requiring step therapy before covering certain drugs to treat.
Homestead exemption; revise provisions regarding surviving spouses and applications.
Memorial highway; designate a segment of U.S. Highway 49 North as Colonel Donnel Berry.
Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty Property; authorize transfer to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
Mississippi Main Street Revitalization Grant Program Act; revise certain provisions.
Artificial intelligence; define.
Foster Youth Earned Benefits Protection for Success Act; enact.
Appropriation; Child Protection Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Fire Academy.
Appropriation; Insurance, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Medical Licensure, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing Home Administrators, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing, Board of.
Appropriation; Optometry, Board of.
Appropriation; Physical Therapy Board.
Appropriation; Psychology, Board of.
Appropriation; Real Estate Appraiser Licensing Certification Board.
Appropriation; Real Estate Commission.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
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MS Childcare Teachers Shortage Task Force; create.
Bobbie Gentry Day; declare June 3 as.
Mental health; authorize assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) as alternative to impatient commitment for certain persons.
Health insurance; require coverage for genetic testing for inherited mutation and evidence-based cancer imaging.
Public Health Trust Fund; divert a certain percentage of funds collected under the Medical Cannabis Act into for 4 years.
Health Insurance; require reimbursement to pharmacists for certain services and procedures.
Medicaid; division shall allow provider to repay incorrect payments made to provider under an installment repayment plan.
Affidavit ballot; allow to serve as voter registration in certain situations.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; extend repealer on act and related tax incentives.
MS Future Innovators Act; enact to require high school computer science or CTE with embedded computer science course.
Rural Health Transformation Program; vendors and entities selected to provide goods and services under are subject to a competitive bidding process.
Housing Authorities; authorize pooling of liabilities with private developers for affordable housing.
CTE; remove stipulation that only certain programs leading to industry certification are considered for statewide accountability.
The MS Jenna's Law Task Force; create.
Tow trucks and wrecker services; bring forward provisions regularly.
Pupil transportation; provide discretionary authority to local school boards to provide for those who live within one mile of the school.
Counties; authorize to participate in a group purchasing program operated by the Mississippi Association of Supervisors.
Alcorn State University Biotechnology Building; name as the "Willie L. Simmons Biotechnology Building".
Rare Disease Task Force; create within the MS Rare Disease Advisory Council.
Mississippi Youth and Family Systems Coordination Task Force; establish.
Inmate Welfare Fund; revise committee for and increase inmate phone call commissions percentage deposited to.
Public property; authorize Department of Finance and Administration to sell and convey.
Opioid Settlement Fund and Advisory Council; bring forward sections creating.
Income tax; exclude NIL compensation from gross income.
In committee · 1
Robert G. Clark, Jr., Voting Rights Act of Mississippi; create.