Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Willie Bailey
Sponsored
Became law3
Gun permits; revise renewal.
Mississippi Delta and Southwest Mississippi Area Workforce Training Projects; create as pilot programs.
Public property; authorize MDOT to transfer certain property.
Passed the House1
Counsel in youth court proceedings; clarify obligations of.
Out of committee4
Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefit Trust Fund; include county medical examiner investigators.
Justice court judges; exempt sitting judges from certain educational requirements.
Crimes; revise defacing, removing or destroying signs.
Ad valorem tax; remove provisions that prescribe the manner of determining true value of affordable rental housing.
In committee7
State Board of Rehabilitation Services; revise composition of.
Jurisdiction of the youth court; certain; revise.
Domestic violence; revise per Supreme Court Commission recommendation.
Contempt of court for failure to pay child support; require person incarcerated to pay costs.
Counties; authorize to pay certain employees biweekly.
Master pollbook; require at each polling location.
Voter registration application; require to include disqualifying crimes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
U.S. Highway 90; designate certain highway bridge thereon as "Leo W. Seal, Jr., Memorial Bridge."
Trademarks and copyrights; revise violations, penalties and applications.
Mental health system; create joint legislative study committee to study and make report on.
Mississippi Technology Alliance; require to make annual reports (PEER).
Preneed Cemetery and Funeral Registration Act/Cemetery Law; revise provisions of.
Bonds; issue for certain passenger and freight rail service infrastructure and other rail projects.
Washington County; authorize to create or join a county railroad authority or regional railroad authority.
Passed the House · 3
State and School Employees health Insurance Management Board; add the Ex. Dir. of Div. of Medicaid as a nonvoting member (PEER).
PEER Committee; create criminal offense and revise subpoena power (PEER).
Clayton P. Henderson; name Marks Vegetable Processing Facility operated by Alcorn State University after.
Out of committee · 2
CON; issue for psychiatric facility beds in Washington County.
Local governments; require that certain information be obtained before appropriating to planning and development districts (PEER).
In committee · 19
"Comprehensive Election Reform Act of 2009"; create.
Wireless telephones; prohibit use of while driving without use of hands-free device.
Appropriation; IHL for Special Task Force for Revitalization of the Mississippi Delta Region.
Mississippi Delta Revitalization Act of 2006; extend date of repealer on.
U.S. Highway 61; schedule as high priority four-laning of those segments not already scheduled otherwise.
Mental Health, Department of; reconstitute board revise executive director qualifications, and provide for medical director.
State Board of Mental Health; create nonvoting member appointed by Community Mental Health Centers (PEER).
Licensed social workers/marriage and family therapists; revise qualifications and continuing education requirements (PEER).
Emergency health powers; define natural disaster and direct SDH to perform certain functions in public health emergencies (PEER).
Psychologist licensure law; revise qualifications and require criminal background checks (PEER).
License professional counselors; clarify board selection and licensure qualifications (PEER).
Executive committee for management of mental health boards; create (PEER).
State medical examiner; revise duties and powers regarding the performance of autopsies. (PEER).
Corrections; require DOC to pay for costs of annual inmate cost per day review contracted for by PEER (PEER).
State Auditor; revise certain requirements regarding powers and duties (PEER).
State-funded capital improvements; colleges are subject to preplanning requirements and restrict use of construction managers (PEER).
Lobbyist clients; require state agencies to file certain reports (PEER).
Contract lobbyists; prohibit agencies and universities and colleges from hiring with public funds (PEER).
Bonds; authorize issuance of bonds for improvements to Jackson Zoo.