Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, House.
William Tracy Arnold
Sponsored
Passed the House2
Assistant teachers; increase base salary by $1,000.00.
Local Governments Capital Improvements Revolving Loan Program; revise term "capital improvements" to include municipal gas system improvements.
Out of committee3
Child neglect; add children left alone in motor vehicles to definitions of.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of MS Highway 371 in Prentiss County as the "James 'Jimmy' C. Pharr Memorial Highway."
Equal pay; require for women and men.
In committee25
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of parts used to maintain or repair certain truck-tractors and semitrailers.
Holy Bible; designate as state book of Mississippi.
State Prison Reform and Rehabilitation Act of 2015; create.
Accreditation rating and accountability and state assessment requirements; require the SDE to waive for two years.
Employees of Department of Corrections; double penalties upon conviction of providing contraband items to offenders.
Firearms; authorize to be carried at highway welcome centers and rest areas.
Electronic learning device; provide each public school student with.
Public hearings pertaining to municipal, county & school district budgets; specify when such hearings may commence.
MS Community College Distance Learning for Single, Working Parents Scholarship Grant.
Mineral rights; revert to surface owner upon determining lack of deed or instrument of conveyance for.
Insurance Equality Act of 2015; create.
School choice; establish statewide open enrollment for public school students.
Transportation; allow timber to be transported at night under certain conditions.
MDOT law enforcement officers; authorize to enforce implied consent law.
Adequate education program funds; require no less than 80% to be allocated to direct classroom instruction.
MS IHL Distance Learning for Single, Working Parents Scholarship Grant; create.
Hunting; clarify that landowners may hunt or target practice on private property abutting levee structure.
Common Core State Standards; provide for the repeal of.
ACT and ACT Aspire; use as exit exam for high school students as graduation requirement and determining levels of proficiency in Grades 3-9.
Pregnancy; provide for crime of felonious child abuse for women testing positive for controlled substances during.
Children; provide immunity from civil liability to those who break into cars to save.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers that employ certain veterans.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers that employ persons convicted of certain felony offenses.
Appropriation; City of Booneville for improving pedestrian travel in the Historic District in Downtown Booneville.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Booneville with certain improvements in downtown historic district.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Courts; prohibit from applying foreign law under certain circumstances.
Corrections; require Inmate Fund to be a special fund; require RFPs for canteen; revise contract amount for review by procurement board.
Personal Service Contract Review Board; revise composition, exemptions, expenditures and method for reviewing single source contracts.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of MS Highway 2 in Alcorn County as "Agent Harold Lane Caldwell Memorial Highway."
Bonds; authorize issuance for repair of deficient bridges on state maintained highways.
Northeast MS Planning and Development District; authorize various counties and cities within district to receive loans or grants for certain purposes.
Passed the House · 7
Prison lands; transfer authority to manage agricultural leases from DFA to Secretary of State.
Mississippi "Gospel Music Trail"; authorize MDA Division of Tourism to establish program and historical markers for.
End-of-course subject area tests; prohibit mandatory passing scores as requirement for graduation.
Candidate qualifying deadline; revise when such occurs on Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday.
Vocational education; provide additional funding to school districts demonstrating needed enhancements for.
Wrongful death; include unborn child.
Income tax; phase out for individuals.
Out of committee · 5
Disbursement of earnings order for offenders housed at restitution centers; institute.
Teacher's Assistant Education Certification Scholars Program; create to provide assistance to individuals pursuing teacher licensure.
Inland port authority; prohibit appointment of a member from a county with a county port to.
Compact for a Balanced Budget; enact.
MS Department of Public Safety; enact salary scale for sworn officers and provide for experience increases.
In committee · 14
CON; organize various provisions of CON law into separate code sections.
Right-to-farm; preserve right of farmers to use various techniques and methods without limitation.
Medical providers; provide health benefit plans must allow participation by and reimbursement to if licensed and within scope of practice.
Dyslexia education; require instruction at collegiate level for licensure and prescribe required standards.
Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund; increase amount Legislature shall appropriate for deposit to.
Accredited Law Enforcement Agencies Award Fund; create to pay awards to law enforcement officers in state accredited agencies.
Sales tax; increase diversion to municipalities.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act; create.
Driver's license; remove requirement that commissioner, assistant commissioner, or authorized deputy sign driver's license.
Appropriations; City of Tupelo for constructing Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and improvements at Elvis Presley Birthplace.
Appropriation; SDE for the establishment of comprehensive dyslexia program in the Smith County School District.
Appropriation; SDE for the establishment of comprehensive dyslexia program in the Smith County School District.
Income tax; authorize a credit for employers who pay the cost of a qualified wellness program.