Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, House.
Becky Currie
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Illegal immigration; strengthen enforcement provisions to prevent.
In committee18
Distinctive license tag; authorize issuance to supporters of Mississippi Emergency Services Association, LLC.
Armed robbery; provide for minimum prison sentence of 10 years.
Extracurricular and athletic activities; require students to maintain a 2.0 weekly grade point average for participation.
Mental Health, Department of; employees who are provided housing on facility grounds must pay rent.
Inspection stickers; require to display month so that it is visible from the outside and inside of the vehicle.
UN Agenda 21; prohibit MS and any political subdivisions of from adopting or implementing and prohibit any association with certain organizations.
Mississippi Wireless Communication Commission; revise authority regarding local government entities.
County veteran service officers; allow to attend training sessions conducted by national service organizations.
Medicare Advantage plans & Prescription Drug plans; provide civil & criminal penalties for violating federal marketing restrictions on.
State law enforcement officers; not required to use personal or major medical leave when injured in line of duty.
State institutions; patients admitted for less than three months not required to pay social security disability benefits to the institution.
Hospices; prohibit issuance of new licenses for unless specifically authorized by legislation.
Retirement; exclude value of noncash maintenance furnished to PERS members for retirement purposes.
Mental Health; reconstitute membership of board and revise qualifications of executive director.
Medicaid; require to establish a Medicaid Medical Home Shared Savings Program.
Crisis Intervention Teams; revise various provisions of laws providing for.
State agencies and local governmental bodies; require details of expenditures to be posted on websites.
Hospitals; require monthly reports to Health Department about patients who have been discharged.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Child Protection Act and Child Rape Protection Act; enact.
Interstate 55; designate certain segment of in Copiah County as the "Robert L. Johnson Memorial Highway."
Sales tax; exempt sales of utilities to churches.
Gun permits; revise reciprocity.
Student grades; prohibit certain school administrators and district employees from influencing a change in.
Appropriation; Legislative expenses.
Appropriation; Attorney General.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Forestry Commission.
Appropriation; Foresters, Board of Registration for.
Appropriation; Soil and Water Conservation Commission.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Passed the House · 3
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act/Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act; create.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Out of committee · 3
Public Safety Verification and Enforcement Act; create.
Teacher Classroom and Disciplinary Control Act; create.
Elected school boards; elect all members at time of presidential election.
In committee · 25
Earned time allowances; prohibit certain inmates from obtaining.
Sales tax and use tax; exempt finance charges from.
Sales tax, prepayment; credit sales shall not be included in estimated June liability if payment not received before June 20.
Income tax; authorize an adjustment to gross income for portion of self-employment taxes paid by self-employed individuals.
Sales tax, liability; limit liability if previous Department of Revenue audits determined taxpayer to be in compliance with law.
Home schooled students; authorize participation in public school extracurricular activities.
Adequate Education Program funds; withhold from districts failing to properly display flags or recite pledge of allegiance.
Oil severance tax; revise distribution between state and counties.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Copiah County in constructing a building for its emergency management agency & 911 headquarters.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Town of Wesson in making Americans With Disabilities Act improvements to a building.
Chancery court; provide additional chancellor for 4th Chancery Court District.
Classroom supply funds; require annual allotment before November 1 to full-time and part-time teachers.
Hunting and fishing licenses; authorize purchase of by any nonresident active duty military personnel at same cost as residents.
School vouchers; authorize State Department of Education to issue under the MS School Choice Scholarship Program.
Tax levy to support school districts; authorize levying authority to veto school board request for increase up to seven percent.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.
Controlled substances; felony to bring into state, county or municipal facility.
Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012; enact to establish new process for creating.
Charter schools; authorize new start-up charter schools and conversion schools.
Distinctive license tag; reauthorize issuance to supporters of the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.
Deadly weapons; revise types for unlawful possession by convicted felon.
Correctional facilities; clarify that possession of certain prohibited items includes grounds of facilities.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; create and provide certain tax incentives for qualified businesses located in.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for infrastructure projects at Panther Ridge Business Park in Copiah County.
Appropriation; Commission on the Status of Women.