Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
John W. Hines, Sr.
Sponsored
Became law2
Intensive supervision program; expand to include juvenile delinquents.
Washington County; extend repealer on Washington County Convention and Visitors Committee and revise terms of committee members.
Passed the House1
Public school students; authorize community service as an alternative to suspension or expulsion.
Out of committee1
Nursing homes; require to purchase and maintain a minimum amount of liability insurance.
In committee33
PERS retirees; state agencies may not employ or contract with through June 30, 2013, with certain exceptions.
Mississippi Foreclosure Business Act; create.
Appropriation; Mississippi Delta Strategic Compact.
Appropriation; Department of Health for HIV/AIDS education, prevention and treatment programs/services.
Legislative Public Project Grant Program; create.
Supervisors and municipal governing authorities; require course related to offices after elected.
Medical records; persons seeking disability benefits may obtain at no charge until final determination of disability.
Homeowner's Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program; establish.
Family Savings Initiative Act; create.
Affordable and quality low-income housing; establish initiatives to improve.
CON; issue for psychiatric facility beds in Washington County.
State and county welfare department; authorize commissioners and employees to participate in political campaign.
Appropriation; Archives and History for preplanning new museum of Mississippi's Native American heritage.
Mississippi Youthbuild Act; create.
Health; State Health Officer shall develop program to close the gap in health status of gender and racial groups.
Medicaid; provide that Private Fee-for-Service plans services shall be covered in a pilot program.
Health insurance policies; require coverage for hearing aids for dependent children.
Workers' Compensation Law; increase maximum total recovery under to 520 weeks.
Rural Transportation Planning Organizations; authorize MDOT to form.
Workers' Compensation Law; require every carrier to provide coverage to employees who have a nonviolent record.
Education Improvement Act; enact.
Appropriation; Archives and History for preplanning new museum of Mississippi's Native American heritage.
School curriculum; require voter education as a component of the United States government course.
Task Force on Combating Childhood Obesity in MS; create.
Comprehensive eye examination; require for certain students upon enrollment in public school or private and parochial school approved by the SBE.
School administrators; require to report acts of violence resulting in injury to local law enforcement authorities.
Dating violence; require school districts to adopt policy and educate students on.
Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprise Act; create.
Self-employment assistance program; create.
Credit unions; authorize to conduct savings promotion raffles.
Perpetual care cemetery; payments for trust fund of from sales of lots apply only to sales made on or after July 1, 2009.
Child care facilities and family child care homes; require emergency preparedness plans for evacuation or protection of children.
Washington County; authorize to impose a hotel/motel tax for purposes of funding a sports complex for youth.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Sex-related education; require local school boards to adopt a policy on and implement.
Washington County; authorize to impose a hotel/motel tax for purposes of funding a sports complex for youth.
Appropriation; Legislative expenses.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Passed the House · 7
School curriculum; authorize financial literacy curriculum in high schools.
Personal care homes; require licensure and regulation if they provide living arrangements for one or more persons.
U.S. Highway 78; designate certain segment of in Benton and Marshall Counties as "William 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway".
Mississippi High School Activities Association; provide legislative oversight for and appoint advisors.
Juvenile Detention Reform Act of 2011; create.
Crimes; provide procedure for expunction of certain felonies of persons under 18 years of age at time of conviction.
Law enforcement; require pursuit policy of alleged crime perpetrator.
Out of committee · 1
Unemployment benefits; remove one-week waiting period.
In committee · 14
Gaming; create state lottery to fund higher education after statewide election on issue.
Gaming; create state lottery to fund higher education.
Check cashers; reduce maximum rate of interest that may be charged for cashing checks.
Funeral directing; allow reinstatement of expired license for if certain conditions are met.
Legal holiday; set first Monday of March as Law Enforcement Day.
Legal holiday; set first Monday of February as Firefighters' Day.
Legal holiday; last Monday of April celebrated as Civil Rights Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day.
Banks; prohibit from charging fee for cashing check drawn on that bank.
Voter registration; authorize mail-in applications to be distributed in polling places.
Physical abuse of incarcerated offenders; require physicians to report to the Department of Corrections.
Private correctional facilities; require the Department of Corrections to approve of canteen prices within.
Use of mace in private correctional facilities; require Commissioner of Department of Corrections to monitor and report.
Walnut Grove Correctional Authority; repeal law authorizing Department of Corrections to contract with.
Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility; require regimented inmate discipline program to have certain components when used at.