Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Zakiya Summers
Sponsored
Passed the House6
Suffrage; restore to Deborah Ledbetter of Hinds County.
Suffrage; restore to Annie Grant of Hinds County.
Suffrage; restore to Kenny Pritchard of Rankin County.
Suffrage; restore to Norman Ivey of Rankin County.
Suffrage; restore to William Barber of Jackson County.
Suffrage; restore to Charles Harris of Harrison County.
In committee23
Families First Unpaid Leave Time Act; enact to require employers to provide unpaid leave to employees for certain situations.
Online voter registration; allow for first time registrants.
Solid waste; require landlords to deliver items too large for garbage containers to disposal facility.
Gas prices on signs and gas pumps; regulate when a difference exists.
"The Lonnie Blue Safety Act"; create to regulate vehicular pursuits.
MAEP; determine cost of using average daily membership (ADM) in lieu of ADA.
Minimum wage; establish and provide for increases in.
Nonlicensed teachers; authorize local school districts to employ certain number to fill core subject area positions.
Early voting; authorize for 20 days before the election.
Prohibition against bullying in schools; revise definitions and include cyberbullying.
Sentencing review; authorize upon petition of a district attorney.
Voter registration application; require to be processed within ten days of deadline and give applicant opportunity to cure.
No-excuse absentee voting; authorize for any qualified voter who votes in person at the office of the registrar.
Flood Prevention and Control Task Force; create for the City of Jackson.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with removal and demolition of dilapidated and blighted properties.
Appropriations; Supreme Court for additional funding for mental health courts.
Appropriation; Department of Mental Health for additional funding for increased number of residential beds.
Appropriation; Department of Education for additional funding to increase instructional support positions due to increased needs from COVID-19.
Homelessness; require Department of Human Services to implement grant program for housing.
Mental health courts; require annual appropriation to Administrative Office of Courts for support of.
Maternal Mortality Review Committee; include recommendations on decreasing racial disparities in maternal care in annual report.
Secretary of State; require to resign from office before qualifying as candidate for other elected office.
No-knock warrants; prohibit issuance of.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
State flag; shall be the design recommended by the Commission to Redesign the State Flag and approved in the November 2020 election.
"Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act"; create.
Municipal judges; authorize to order a defendant to remedy real property ordinance violations within a reasonable time period.
Computer science curriculum; require State Department of Education to implement in K-12 public schools.
Teachers' and teacher's assistants' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary.
Nationally certified licensed school employees; delete caps on nurses and speech pathologists and add athletic trainers for salary supplements.
Early Learning Collaborative Act of 2013; revise funding and specify teaching standards.
William F. Winter and Jack Reed, Sr., Teacher Loan Repayment Program; create.
MDOT; require maintenance of rights-of-way of state highways inside municipal limits with 10,000 or less population.
Open meeting; authorize executive session for discussion of plans to combat human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Passed the House · 4
The Sexual Assault Response For College Students Act; create.
School buildings; require new construction and certain renovations to include refillable water bottle stations.
Child support payment; suspend obligation to pay when the person to pay is incarcerated.
Capitol Complex Improvement District; authorize demolition of slum and blighted properties located within.
Out of committee · 1
"Trauma-Informed Discipline Practices Act; enact to establish procedures to assess and mediate effects of traumatic events in schools.
In committee · 11
Farmers markets; DHS provide grants to entity to incentivize purchases of healthy foods from with SNAP benefits.
Department of Mental Health and community health centers; expand outpatient services for certain formerly incarcerated state inmates.
Vocational and home economics; require curriculum for all middle, high and alternative school students.
Community and junior colleges; expand workforce development partnerships.
Civics; require State Board of Education to develop curriculum for public middle and high school students.
United States Highway 49; designate segment from Hinds County to Coahoma County as an historic highway.
Equal pay for equal work; require employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
Skill terminal devices; authorize operation of under in MS Lottery Corporation and impose tax on to support PERS.
Bonds; authorize issuance for improvements to the Jackson Public Schools District's Career Development Center.
Bonds; authorize issuance for improvements at Alcorn State University, Jackson State University and Mississippi Valley State University.
City of Jackson; authorize contributions to Keep Jackson Beautiful, Inc.