Bills in the 2026 Regular Session, House.
Becky Currie
Sponsored
Passed the House5
Death certificate; require physician, APRNs or physician assistants who attended to decedent's care to sign.
Contracts for medical services for state inmates; require DFA to be responsible for all solicitations for proposals concerning.
Inmate Welfare Fund; revise committee for and increase inmate phone call commissions percentage deposited to.
Corrections Overview Task Force; establish and repeal Corrections and Criminal Justice Task Force.
Department of Health and MDOC; require to establish Hepatitis C and HIV Treatment Program for state inmates.
Out of committee7
One Mississippi; require State Dept of Ed. to provide copies for sale to students in Grade 2 for instruction during "Read Across America Week."
Medical cannabis; dispensary may sell directly to the designated caregiver without the qualifying patient being present.
MDOC; prohibit charging of inmates seeking certain healthcare services and provide kiosks at facilities for inmate requests for healthcare appointments.
Dept. of Corrections; require to provide monthly rodent and pest control services at state correctional facilities.
Inmate Welfare Fund; require MDOC to produce an annual consolidated statement for.
Audits related to state correctional system, certain; require PEER Committee to enter into contract to perform.
Corrections omnibus act; create.
In committee29
Daylight saving time; observe year-round if federal law is amended to allow it.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property or services to the Lincoln Civic Center Foundation.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of infant formula, baby food, diapers and certain other children's items.
Pledge of Allegiance; require that public school students recite at the beginning of each school day.
Medicaid; exclude from participation any providers that perform or are affiliated with performance of abortions.
Child support; revise to calculate with shared income of both parents.
Retirement; PERS and SLRP members convicted of certain felonies shall have benefits suspended until full restitution is made.
PERS; first responders hired after 3-1-26 may receive retirement allowance after 25 years of service.
Unauthorized aliens; penalize transport into state by any person and prohibit forgery of documents.
Volunteer Firefighter Certification Act; create.
Nurse practitioners; authorize certain to sign physician orders for sustaining treatment (POST).
Social workers; prohibit licensing board from requiring certain exam for applicants for a license by reciprocity.
First Responders Retirement System; establish.
SNAP; direct DHS to seek waiver to allow prohibiting purchase of soft drinks, energy drinks and candy with.
Human smuggling and/or harboring; create crime for those who have illegally entered or illegally remained in the U.S.
Smart meters; provide utility customers with option to decline installation of.
State Inspector General; create office to investigate waste, fraud and abuse in executive state agencies.
Illegal immigration; strengthen enforcement to prevent.
PEER; change reporting requirement on charter schools from annually to biennially.
Medical examiners; require to document in autopsy report recent immunizations of persons who die suddenly and unexpectedly.
Health Insurance; require policies to cover annual pap smear.
Geoengineering; prohibit certain weather and temperature modification.
Nurses; require to receive training on human trafficking and certify such receipt when applying for or renewing their licenses.
Office of Corrections Ombudsman; establish.
Housing of municipal prisoners in county jails; revise method that counties and municipalities use to calculate costs for payment of.
Inmate deaths; require autopsy reports be provided to certain elected officials.
Dept. of Corrections; require to convene unexpected fatality review team for certain inmate deaths.
Department of Corrections; require to provide body-worn cameras for its correctional officers.
Visitation to state correctional facilities by certain officials; remove advance notice requirement that is provided to commissioner.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Health benefit plans and Medicaid; require to offer coverage for biomarker testing.
Memorial highway; designate a segment of U.S. Highway 49 North as Colonel Donnel Berry.
Appropriation; Child Protection Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Fire Academy.
Appropriation; Insurance, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Medical Licensure, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing Home Administrators, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing, Board of.
Appropriation; Optometry, Board of.
Appropriation; Physical Therapy Board.
Appropriation; Psychology, Board of.
Appropriation; Real Estate Appraiser Licensing Certification Board.
Appropriation; Real Estate Commission.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
Passed the House · 1
Parkinson's Disease Research Registry; establish within State Department of Health.