Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, House.
Becky Currie
Sponsored
Became law2
Personal Service Contract Review Board; exempt entertainer contracts entered into by Mississippi Fair Commission from review of.
Nursing Licensure Compact; create.
Vetoed1
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of "qualified resort area" under the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
Passed the House2
School buses; allow students to drink water on.
Mental health courts; authorize and provide for certification of.
Out of committee3
School districts; require uniform accounting system to address local, state and federal funds and transfer audit powers to SDE.
MS Arts Commission; bring forward sections for possible amendments.
Mississippi Children's Cabinet; establish to coordinate services for children.
In committee24
Mississippi Patient Protection Act of 2017; create.
Board of Nursing; remove physician member and consumer member from the board.
Board of Mental Health; add 2 new members who are directors of community mental health centers.
Exceptional students; those finishing with a special diploma, certificate of completion or occupational diploma shall not be deemed dropouts.
Public schools; require to post child abuse hotline number in visible areas of the school.
U.S. History subject area test; require State Board of Education to cease administration of.
Common Core State Standards; provide for the repeal of.
Managed care organizations providing health care services to Medicaid beneficiaries; provide standardized credentialing of providers.
Health insurance policies; require coverage certain examinations primarily related to women's health.
Motor vehicle; provide that the most insurers shall be required to pay for repairs is the prevailing market rate.
First Lady's Contingent Fund; create in Treasury for expenses incurred in performing duties of First Lady.
Forestry Commission law enforcement officers; provide with full police power as a duly sworn law enforcement officer.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; delete requirement of additional fee for renewal of tag issued to veterans.
Illegal immigration; strengthen enforcement provisions to prevent.
Harassment by public employee; require to reimburse public employer when employee has violated.
Equal pay for equal work; require for employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
Adverse possession; repeal.
Firearms prohibition; authorize civil liability against any owner who posts written notice.
Office of Educator Standards and Licensure; create.
Sex crimes against "physically helpless persons"; prohibit courts from suspending sentences for persons who committed.
Newborns; prohibit administration of Hepatitis B vaccination to at birth unless parents request.
MS Board for Educator Standards and Licensure (BESL); establish.
Local option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; revise certain provisions regard leisure and recreation districts.
Appropriation; Administration Office of Courts to provide funding for mental health courts.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
2017 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.
Back the Badge Act of 2017; create.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Port Authority, State.
Appropriation; Yellow Creek State Inland Port Authority.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation;Child Protective Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Vetoed · 1
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Passed the House · 3
Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact; create.
State Health Insurance Plan; require to cover certain annual examinations.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.
In committee · 7
Highway Patrol training class; require increase in sex offender registration to fund.
Health insurance policies; require certain to cover infertility treatment and certain women's examinations.
MS Fair Commission; exempt from requirement to reduce fund allocation during statewide revenue shortfall.
Welfare Policy Institute within the IHL board; repeal.
Sanctuary policy; prohibit adoption or enactment of a.
Mental health courts; establish statewide standards.
Law Enforcement Death Benefits Trust Fund; authorize transfers from rainy day fund when trust funds are insufficient.