Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Donnie Bell
Sponsored
Became law3
City of Fulton; extend repealer on hotel/motel tourism tax.
Coronavirus relief funds; transfer to Unemployment Compensation Fund.
Appropriation; Department of Employment Security for purposes related to COVID-19.
Vetoed1
Mississippi Workforce Incentive Act of 2020; create.
Passed the House10
Mississippi Workforce Development Study Committee; create.
Sales tax; exempt sale of tangible personal property or services to Itawamba Crossroads Ranch, Inc.
Career and technical education programs; require SBE and MCCB to collaborate for administration of.
Reverse auction; revise method of receiving bids through for agencies and governing authorities.
Home inspector license; require applicants to undergo certain background checks.
Agencies, departments and institutions; require to report workforce monies received and how those monies were spent to the SWIB each year.
Community or junior college; require to include source of funds used to advertise certain workforce development courses and training.
Sales Tax; exempt certain sales of tangible personal property and services to nonprofit organizations that provide workforce training.
Mississippi Department of Employment Security; revise certain provisions regarding in response to COVID-19 pandemic.
Public purchasing laws; exempt certain procurements related to COVID-19 from.
In committee15
Teacher licensure; provide to certain individuals with a minimum of five years experience in public school districts or certain nonpublic schools.
Accountability rating system; revise to provide for method of accommodating certain students with cognitive disabilities and dropouts.
Accountability rating system; abolish A-F ratings and implement percentage designation ratings.
Mineral interests; owner of nonproducing interest held separately from surface estate will be liable for portion of ad valorem taxes on land.
Hypodermic syringes or needles; unlawful to sell, obtain, purchase or possess as a direct consumer without a written prescription.
Possession of cell phones and certain contraband by incarcerated offenders and correctional employees; provide enhanced penalty.
Mineral estates; revert to surface estate owner after ten-year period of nonproduction.
Technical and vocational curriculum; require SDE to develop as alternative to college preparatory curriculum.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to school districts for vocational education improvements.
Appropriation; Department of Education for new program to make funding available to school districts for enhancing vocational education.
Vocational education; provide additional funding to school districts demonstrating need for enhancements.
Mississippi Transportation Commission; require to allocate funds equally between the four congressional districts.
Appropriations; MDES to fund Mississippi Works Career-Tech Scholars Program at community colleges.
Mississippi Department of Employment Security; revise certain provisions regarding in response to COVID-19 pandemic.
Appropriations; Department of Education for administering ACT WorkKeys Assessment to all career and technical education student.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Real Estate Brokers License; revise the requirements to be granted such a license.
Passed the House · 3
Memorial Highway; designate U.S. Highway 45 in Alcorn County and Prentiss County as "Speaker William J. 'Billy' McCoy Memorial Highway."
Emerging Crops Fund; increase maximum loan amount and total bonding authority under.
Career and technical education; revise curriculum, instructor license requirements and certain assessments.
In committee · 2
Qualification deadline; change to February 1 for statewide and county elected officials.
Bonds; authorize issuance for improvements to the BankcorpSouth Arena and Conference Center in Tupelo.