Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
William Tracy Arnold
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Parental Rights of Rapists; terminate for children conceived of rape.
Out of committee1
Income tax; allow a credit to grocers for part of cost of purchasing locally grown or produced agricultural products.
In committee33
Nonadmitted policy fee; extend repealer on and revise diversion for FY 2020.
Motion Picture Incentive Act; extend authority of Department of Revenue to approve applications for certain rebates under.
Appropriations; Mississippi Community College Board to provide mid-level funding for community colleges.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers that employ persons convicted of certain nonviolent offenses.
Child care facilities; exempt church owned and operated facilities from licensure.
Homeschooled students; authorize participation in public school extracurricular activities.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the first weekend in August.
Pharmacies; reduce time period covered by audit of claims submitted by to PBMs.
Equal pay for equal work; require for employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
K-12 Attendance Centers; revise assignment of points for purposes of accountability grading.
Bonds; authorize issuance for community and junior colleges capital improvements.
Windpool; divert money from nonadmitted policy fees for revolving loan fund for tornado sirens.
Mississippi Traumatic Brain Injury Victims Fund; create and fund through school bus overtaking violations assessment.
Sales tax; exempt certain retail sales of locally grown or produced agricultural products.
MS Workforce Enhancement Training Fund; use certain funds for establishing an industrial certification grant program.
Driver's license; require driver education and safety program completion by students under 18 years of age.
Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act; create.
Nonadjudication and pretrial intervention; authorize completion of workforce training as a condition that the court may impose.
Stem Cells; prohibit use of in research or therapy if derived from human embryo or fetus that was destroyed.
School athletic events; require local school boards to adopt policy granting free admission to veterans of United States Armed Forces.
Evelyn Gandy Fair Pay Act; create.
Daylight saving time; observe year-round if federal law is amended to allow it.
Window tint laws; delete population threshold on which municipal law enforcement shall enforce.
Abortion facilities; prohibit selling stem cells derived from human embryo or fetus that was destroyed.
Right to vote; restore to people who committed nonviolent disqualifying crimes upon meeting certain requirements.
Electric power associations; authorize secondary purpose of providing broadband services.
First time drug offenders; authorize the circuit judge to require participation in a workforce development program.
Assistant teachers; increase salary for.
Community colleges; provide for restored mid-level funding for purpose of increasing salaries of certain employees.
Driver's license; require driver education and safety program completion by students under 18 years of age.
Small Business Employee Benefit Task Force; create.
Prentiss County Agri-Industrial Port Law; create.
Department of Defense Contractors; authorize certain incentives for.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 41
Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act; create.
Windstorm Underwriting Association; authorize to levy recoupable and nonrecoupable assessments.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children; decriminalize for minors and improve response and support services of government agencies to.
Educator use of personal leave; authorize use of by employees on certain days in the event of death or funeral of an immediate family member.
Israel Support Act of 2019; create.
Income tax; authorize a job tax credit for certain water transportation enterprises.
Public agency; prohibit from requesting or releasing certain personal information from an entity organized under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The "Mississippi School Safety Act of 2019"; enact.
Assault and aggravated assault; include health care providers in provisions regarding.
Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System.
Appropriation; Veterans' Home Purchase Board.
Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
Appropriation; Cosmetology, Board of.
Appropriation; Psychology, Board of.
Appropriation; Auctioneers Commission.
Appropriation; Medical Licensure, Board of.
Appropriation; Optometry, Board of.
Appropriation: Real Estate Commission and Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board.
Appropriation; Nursing Home Administrators, Board of.
Appropriation; Physical Therapy Board.
Appropriation; Nursing, Board of.
Appropriation; Barber Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Engineers and Land Surveyors, Board of Registration for Professional.
Appropriation; Athletic Commission.
Appropriation; Public Service Commission.
Appropriation; Public Utilities Staff.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Pat Harrison Waterway District.
Appropriation; Yellow Creek State Inland Port Authority.
Appropriation; Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District.
Appropriation; Pearl River Valley Water Supply District.
Appropriation; Port Authority, State.
Passed the House · 4
Veterans; establish a permissive preference in private employment for certain veterans.
Mental health courts; authorize to be established throughout the state.
Abortion; prohibit when heartbeat is detected.
Daylight saving time; observe year-round if the federal law is amended to allow it.
Out of committee · 1
The Landowners Protection Act; create.
In committee · 14
Electric/hybrid vehicle tax; exempt certain vehicles.
Abortion; prohibit after fetal heartbeat is detectable.
School recognition program; clarify eligible personnel to receive salary supplement from financial award by schools.
The Mississippi Classified School Employee Teacher Credentialing and Retention Grant Program; establish to address teacher shortage.
School day; authorize credit toward required number of days for school districts exceeding required 5 1/2 hours/day.
Homestead exemption; revise certain provisions regarding application for.
Assistant Teacher Forgivable Loan Program; revise to increase financial assistance to those pursuing teacher licensure.
Mississippi Occupational diploma; reinstate for purposes of awarding to students with disabilities upon high school graduation.
End-of-course tests; eliminate passing score as graduation requirement and from calculation of accountability ratings for 4 years.
Intentional injury to pregnant woman; revise penalties.
Hunting regulation changes; require Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to provide certain notice.
Sales tax; reduce rate on retail sales of certain motorcycles.
Performance of work when defendant unable to pay fine; clarify judge's discretionary rate of credit to be applied for work performed.
First responders; declare certain diseases and conditions as work-related and entitling worker to benefits.