Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Becky Currie
Sponsored
Became law5
Hospices; delete repealer on authority for prescribing certain drugs without in-person visit with a patient.
Occupational licensing; provide for recognition of out-of-state licenses if applicants satisfy certain conditions.
Town of Wesson; authorize the use of low-speed vehicles and golf carts on certain public roads.
Town of Georgetown; authorize use of low-speed vehicles and golf carts on certain public roads.
Lincoln County; include food sold at county's civic center as retail merchandise when processing electronic payments for such merchandise.
Passed the House4
Mississippi Development Authority Tourism Advertising Fund; use portion of monies in to advertise state parks.
Hospice licensure; extend moratorium on and authorize issuance of 2 pediatric palliative care licenses.
Bonds; revise purposes for which bonds authorized for Town of Wesson may be used.
Department of Corrections; authorize to provide for hospice care services to inmates with a terminal illness.
Out of committee1
State Parks; provide funding from net proceeds of the Mississippi Lottery Corporation.
In committee25
Farmers markets; DHS provide grants to entity to incentivize purchases of healthy foods from with SNAP benefits.
"Mississippi Police Funding Protection Act"; create.
Autopsies; require to include inquiry about whether death was result of seizure or epilepsy.
Monuments on public property; prohibit the removal or relocation unless authorized by legislation.
Registry, person committing offense against peace officer; create to include offenses including terrorism.
Female genital mutilation; create crime of.
Municipalities; prohibit from receiving certain funds if police department is defunded.
Stop Social Media Censorship Act; create.
E-verify program; transfer responsibility of administering to the Commission of Agriculture and Commerce.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property or services to the Lincoln Civic Center Foundation.
Medicaid; nonresident admitted to pediatric skilled nursing facility in MS not eligible for MS Medicaid coverage.
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.
Sales tax; remove requirement that certain taxpayers pay June liability for the tax on or before June 25.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property or service to the Lincoln Civic Center Foundation.
Home health services; authorize nurse practitioners and physician assistants to order and certify.
Community mental health centers; provide that health insurers may not deny the right to participate as a contract provider.
Physical therapists; delete requirement for physician referral before performing services.
Physical therapy practice laws; revise various provisions of.
State agencies; eliminate requirement to prepare and publish annual reports.
Solemn covenant of the states to award prizes for Curing Diseases Compact; enact.
Justifiable homicide; add defense of business during looting or a riot as a ground for.
Health insurance; require certain policies to provide coverage for physician-prescribed proton beam therapy.
Patriot Guard Act; create.
Presidential election; prohibit release of popular vote until after meeting of electors in the states.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
MDOT; require maintenance of rights-of-way of state highways inside municipal limits with 10,000 or less population.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
In committee · 1
"Forming Open and Robust University Minds (FORUM) Act"; establish.