Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Becky Currie
Sponsored
Became law2
Deputy Donald William Durr Memorial Highway; designate segment of U.S. Highway 51 in Lincoln County as.
Suffrage; restore to Phillip L. Sterling of Lincoln County.
Passed the House3
Mental health courts; authorize to be established throughout the state.
Spoofing; provide that violation of is a violation of MS Telephone Solicitation Act.
Hospice; allow medical directors to prescribe controlled substances for pain for terminally ill patients without in person visit.
In committee28
Appropriation; Administrative Office of Courts to provide funding for mental health courts.
Average daily attendance; revise percentage of instructional day from 37% to 50% for students to be counted in.
Graduation rates; revise method of reporting for accountability purposes by providing five-year completion option.
Harassment by public employee; require to reimburse public employer when employee has violated.
Medicaid; pharmacy benefits for managed care beneficiaries shall be traditional fee-for-service.
Motor vehicle; provide that the most insurers shall be required to pay for repairs is the prevailing market rate.
Medicaid; establish provider-sponsored health plan as a pilot managed care program.
Earned time allowance; prohibit inmates convicted of murder or manslaughter from obtaining.
Earned time allowances; prohibit offenders convicted of previous violent crime from obtaining.
Habitual offender; prohibit use of plea bargaining if convicted for committing crime of violence.
Autopsies; require to include inquiry about whether death was result of seizure or epilepsy.
Chronic wasting disease; establish procedures to limit the spread of.
Sales tax; reduce rate on retail sales of certain motorcycles.
MS Responder Management System; registrants receive workers' compensation benefits for death or injury responding to emergency.
MS Department of Child Protection Services; require to submit reports.
Window tint laws; delete population threshold on which municipal law enforcement shall enforce.
Charter schools; revise annual appropriation to authorize board and clarify procedures in calculating finding for.
Memorial highway; designate segment in Lincoln county in renaming of Walter Zachery "Zach" Moak and James Kevin White.
Health insurance; revise mandatory policy provisions to penalize late payments of claims.
Statewide testing program; revise.
Department of Corrections; require transmittal of information to DHS on persons in DOC custody to monitor recidivism rates of persons adjudicated delinquent.
Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Surveyors; authorize to establish 2-year licensure cycle for engineers.
Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program; revise various provisions.
County jail census data; facilitate the availability of.
Advertisement of the resources counties and municipalities offer; prescribe certain guidelines for.
K-12 attendance centers; revise assignment of points for purposes of accountability grading.
DFA; establish office of Shared Services within to operate as the central business office for select agencies.
Ad valorem tax; exempt motorcycles while in the hands of dealers as merchandise.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Income tax; authorize a job tax credit for certain water transportation enterprises.
Group health insurance; allow local governing authorities to pay employee's benefits for dependents.
Nurses; authorize Board of Nursing to establish an alternative to discipline program for licensees with certain impairment.
In committee · 8
Electric/hybrid vehicle tax; exempt certain vehicles.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Scenic Rivers Development Alliance with acquisition and development of land in Franklin County.
Mississippi Occupational diploma; reinstate for purposes of awarding to students with disabilities upon high school graduation.
Sales tax; reduce rate on retail sales of certain motorcycles.
Mississippi Veterans Organizations Supplemental Funding Act of 2019; create.
Legislature; allow retired PERS members to receive a retirement allowance while serving as a member of.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property to Mississippi's Toughest Kids foundation for construction of Camp Kamassa.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property and services to Mississippi's Toughest Kids Foundation for construction of Camp Kamassa.