Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Carl Mickens
Sponsored
Became law1
Suffrage; restore to Kentrell Liddell of Oktibbeha County.
In committee12
Minimum wage; establish at $10.00 and set requirements for exemptions and overtime.
Statewide Assessment Program; require the SBE to use ACT Aspire as summative assessment.
Corporal punishment; prohibit administration of in public and charter schools for disciplinary matters.
Parole Board; require review of mental health issues and controlled substances when considering parole eligible inmates.
Right to vote; restore automatically once a person has completed all sentencing requirements.
Conditions of probation; clarify that courts may provide certain treatment for veterans when placed on probation.
Third-Grade Reading Assessment; prohibit use of score to determine promotion of students to fourth grade.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Noxubee County with construction of an emergency operations center.
Fresh Start Act; revise certain portions of and authorize practice of medicine of dentistry after certain expungement.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Noxubee County with construction of an emergency operations center.
Embezzlement; revise the list of excluded crimes for expungement.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Noxubee County with equipment for 911 dispatch center.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Department of Revenue; authorize to revise individual income tax forms to allow taxpayer to designate two bank accounts for direct deposit.
State offenders; extend repealer on authority to house in county jails when state space is unavailable.
Part-time law enforcement officers; revise salary threshold determination for deputy sheriffs and police officers.
Appropriations; DFA for tourism and nonprofit art museum recovery.
State Flag; revise with a commission and require words "In God We Trust."
Vetoed · 1
Appropriation; several agencies for addressing the public health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Passed the House · 13
Law enforcement officers; allow off-duty use of official vehicles while performing certain volunteer services in off-duty hours.
"Trauma-Informed Discipline Practices Act; enact to establish procedures to assess and mediate effects of traumatic events in schools.
Health insurance policies; require certain to provide infertility coverage and establish pilot program in State Health Plan.
Student club funds; clarify use and accounting practices by school districts.
Teacher licensure; revise qualifications for candidates to enter an approved teacher education program.
Guardianships and Conservatorships; revise provision for proceedings.
Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a District of Innovation.
"Mississippi Hemp Cultivation Act"; enact to provide for regulation of hemp.
Commissioner of Corrections, and community corrections; bring forward various sections relating to.
Corrections omnibus bill; enact.
Compassionate Parole Eligibility Act of 2020; create.
Inmate Welfare Fund; require DOC to expend unused portions of the fund on reentry purposes.
The Mississippi Back to Business Liability Assurance Act; create.
In committee · 31
Practice of medicine or dentistry; allow person convicted of certain crimes to practice after license reinstatement.
Starkville High School AP Government Class of 2019 Motor Voter Act; create to establish the procedure for the automatic registration of voters.
Medicaid; seek waiver for plan to expand eligibility with regional care organizations, known as "One Mississippi."
Medicaid; eligible pregnant women shall remain eligible for maternal care services for 12 months after end of pregnancy.
Habitual offenders; exclude nonviolent from penalties.
Firearms; prohibit discharge near petroleum.
Family dynamics; include in public school curriculum as a required component.
Early voting; authorize for qualified electors otherwise unable to vote on election day.
School bus drivers; require to be first aid and CPR trained and certified.
Liability insurance policies; must include provision that insolvency or bankruptcy of insured does not release insurer from payment of damages during policy.
Federal judges; authorize to solemnize marriage.
Child Care Advisory Council; require child care providers to recommend names of persons to serve on.
Department of Health; limit any increase in fees by to not more than five percent.
Department of Human Services; require a board of directors to be created within.
Unemployment compensation; revise weekly benefit amount for.
School prayer; require school boards to designate a period of reflection for students at the beginning of each school day.
Child support; revise factors for award of.
Statute of Limitations; remove for crimes against children.
Concealed firearm license; clarify prohibition for mentally incompetent.
Retirement; elected officials convicted of certain felonies shall have benefits suspended until full restitution has been made.
Income tax and sales tax liability; revise method of collecting from public officers or employees.
State flag; change the design of.
Mississippi Millennial's Commission; create.
Inmate Release Reform; revise provisions regulating sentencing and release of those convicted of certain violations.
TANF Funds; require Department of Human Services to submit report to Legislature if certain allocated funds are not used.
TANF recipients; establish program to provide wage subsidies to employers who hire.
TANF program; PEER Committee shall conduct an annual review of expenditures of TANF funds.
TANF; require Department of Human Services to allocate maximum amount allowable under federal law to child care services.
TANF; increase maximum monthly amount of benefits.
Partisan primary elections; abolish and establish open primary elections.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Clay, Lowndes and Oktibbeha Counties with certain road projects.