Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, House.
Becky Currie
Sponsored
Became law4
Tourism; establish programs for certain assistance, designate "One Mississippi" as contemporary music genre official State Song.
PEER Committee; require to review effectiveness of the Mississippi Development Authority Tourism Advertising Fund.
Line-Item Appropriation Transparency Act; make certain technical amendments to.
Sheriffs' salaries; increase.
Passed the House2
Home health services; authorize nurse practitioners and physician assistants to order and certify.
Mississippi Freedom Trail Commission; establish.
In committee41
Physical therapists; delete requirement for physician referral before performing services.
Physical therapy practice laws; revise various provisions of.
Health Insurance policies; require coverage of certain examinations primarily related to women's health.
Appropriation; additional to DPS from Death Benefits Trust Fund to pay benefits covered under First Responder Act.
Anatomical gifts; prohibit discrimination against recipient based on disability.
Patriot Guard Act; create.
The Teaching Racial and Universal Equality (TRUE) Act: enact to prohibit critical race theory from inclusion in public school curriculum.
"Mississippi Police Funding Protection Act"; create.
State agencies; eliminate requirement to prepare and publish annual reports.
Municipalities; prohibit from receiving certain funds if police department is defunded.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property or services to the Lincoln Civic Center Foundation.
Occupational licenses; revise reciprocity requirements for.
E-verify program; transfer responsibility of administering to the Commission of Agriculture and Commerce.
State Parks; provide funding from net proceeds of the Mississippi Lottery Corporation.
Autopsies; require to include inquiry about whether death was result of seizure or epilepsy.
Medicaid; increase reimbursement rate for providers of assisted living services.
Community mental health centers; provide that health insurers may not deny the right to participate as a contract provider.
Health insurance; require certain policies to provide coverage for physician-prescribed proton beam therapy.
Scrap metal; revise penalties and suspend license for receipt of stolen property.
Health insurance policies; require coverage for certain examinations primarily related to women's health.
Rivers McGraw Mental Health Diversion Program; revise to create mental health treatment courts.
Sherry Elmore Nursing Education Forgivable Loan Program; create.
Mississippi Equal Pay Act; create.
Equal pay for equal work; require for employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases Compact; enact.
Department of Corrections; establish a Division of Parole within.
Mississippi Prison Industries Corporation; dissolve and create Division of Reentry and Prison Industry within MDOC.
Immigrants; prohibit Mississippi agencies from assisting federal agencies transporting into Mississippi.
Law enforcement; allow interoperability between MSHP and counties and municipalities.
Cosmetology Board; reconstitute membership of and require to appoint an executive director.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property or service to 5th Squad.
Public Procurement Review Board; revise exemption of contracts for legal services.
State Institutions of Higher Learning; require to develop mechanism to compile data sources on institutional capital outlay projects.
Charter Schools; revise certain provisions related to the authorizer board, appropriation of funds and student funding formula.
State employees; set out conditions for engaging in telework.
State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering; create to license and regulate those two occupations.
Internal audit office; require universities and certain state agencies to establish.
Mississippi Semiquincentennial Commission; create.
Telecommunications and personal or professional services; provide procedures for emergency purchases of.
Law Enforcement Death Benefits Trust Fund; includes cause of death covered under First Responders Act of 2020.
Children's Advocacy Centers Fund ; require annual appropriation by the Legislature to.
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Anatomical gifts; prohibit discrimination against recipient based on disability.
Memorial highways; designate in Rankin County, Mississippi.
"Representative Bill Kinkade Fostering Access and Inspiring True Hope (FAITH) Scholarship Program Act"; create.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Passed the House · 1
State song; designate "One Mississippi" as official.
In committee · 1
Unconstitutional acts of federal government; prohibit state agency or political subdivision of the state from cooperating with a federal agency in implementing any.