Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Becky Currie
Sponsored
Became law4
Memorial highways; designate various throughout the state.
Hospice; allow medical directors to prescribe controlled substances for pain for terminally ill patients without in-person visit.
Appropriations; DFA for tourism and nonprofit art museum recovery.
Mississippi Tourism Recovery Fund and Mississippi Nonprofit Art Museums Recovery Fund; create.
Passed the House4
Bonds; revise purposes for which bonds authorized for Town of Wesson may be used.
Absentee voting; require votes to be cast electronically in registrar's office or by mail.
Chronic wasting disease; require testing of white-tailed deer harvested in enclosures, and designate Class I and II violations.
MS Blues Commission; direct to erect certain Blues Trail marker and add location to trail.
Out of committee2
E-verify program; transfer responsibility of administering to the Commission of Agriculture and Commerce.
Memorial highway; designate segment in Lincoln County for Officer James Kevin White.
In committee31
Average daily attendance; revise percentage of instructional day from 37% to 50% for students to be counted in.
Sales tax; reduce rate on retail sales of certain motorcycles.
Medicaid; prohibit removal of Alabama and Tennessee hospital from managed care coverage plans or paying lower rates to.
Medicaid; require managed care companies to provide detailed, signed explanation for denial of coverage of procedure.
Use tax; enhance enforcement of collection on all-terrain vehicles purchased out of state.
K-12 attendance centers; revise assignment of points for purposes of accountability ratings.
Sales tax; remove requirement that certain taxpayers pay June liability for the tax on or before June 25.
Salaries of statewide elected officials; increase.
Monuments on public property; prohibit the removal or relocation unless authorized by legislation.
MS Guardianship and Conservatorship Act; require actions pending before effective date to be governed by preceding laws.
Occupational licensing; provide for recognition of out-of-state licenses if applicants satisfy certain conditions.
Child custody; clarify that equally shared parenting time is in the best interest of the child.
Income tax; exclude from gross income compensation and income of honorable discharged veterans.
Bible courses; require the State Board of Education to develop a curriculum and guidelines for inclusion at the high school level.
Board of Nursing; remove physician member and consumer member from the board.
Medicaid; nonresident admitted to pediatric skilled nursing facility in MS not eligible for MS Medicaid coverage.
Highway speed limits; require certain shall be 70 mph and cannot be reduced.
Autopsies; require to include inquiry about whether death was result of seizure or epilepsy.
DHS; prohibit from directing funds to grantees or subgrantees without competitive selection through RFP process.
Physical therapy practice laws; revise various provisions of.
Prescription drugs; direct Health Department to establish a wholesale importation program for.
Department of Human Services Fraud Prevention Act; create.
Voting systems; revise the authority of boards of supervisors and governing authorities to purchase.
Equal pay for equal work; require for women in the same work establishment.
Statewide Electors Management System; compare to certain identification databases to ensure non-U.S. citizens are not registered to vote.
Mississippi Blues Commission; transfer functions and assets of to the Mississippi Development Authority.
MS Direct Primary Care Act; bring forward for possible amendment.
Female genital mutilation; create crime of.
Registry, person committing offense against peace officer; create to include offenses including terrorism.
Medicaid; require contracts with managed care organizations to have certain specific provisions.
EMS Advisory Council; reconstitute the memberships of.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Passed the House · 1
Regulatory Reduction Pilot Program; create.
In committee · 3
Statewide Elections Management System; remove voters who fail to respond to notice and who fail to vote after certain period of time from.
State Superintendent of Public Education; align salary to no more than 150% of Governor's salary.
Bonds; authorize issuance for improvements at state parks.