Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Richard Bennett
Sponsored
Became law5
Appropriation; Department of Education for additional funding for teachers' salaries.
Public special purpose schools; clarify provision related to administrative and licensed instructional personnel of.
Tate County School Board; require to consolidate system of high schools by closing Coldwater High School.
State and School Health Insurance Management Board; authorize State Agency executive heads to designate to serve in his or her capacity.
Appropriation; "Equity in Distance Learning Fund" for purpose of providing distance learning to public K-12 students.
Passed the House7
Gifted education; require school districts to provide for students in Grades 7 and 8.
State Department of Education; permit to receive various contributions from public or private donors.
Student club funds; clarify use and accounting practices by school districts.
Computer science curriculum; require State Department of Education to implement in K-12 public schools.
National board certification annual salary supplement; remove cap on number of nurses and speech-language pathologists eligible for.
"Technology Instruction and Digital Access to Learning (TIDAL) Act"; create to establish digital learning programs for K-12 education and provide grants for electronic devices used in instruction.
Appropriation; "Equity in Distance Learning Fund" for purpose of providing distance learning to public K-12 students.
In committee18
Vocational education; clarify references throughout state law and proper terminology as "career and technical education".
Kindergarten-age children; require mandatory attendance under compulsory-school attendance laws.
MAEP; determine cost of using Average Daily Membership (ADM) in lieu of ADA with 95% threshold attendance trigger.
No child Left Behind Act; remove obsolete references to in state statute.
Teacher licensure; revise certain provisions relating to teacher education programs and disciplinary matters.
Licensed school employees and administrators; suspend license for one year for breach of contract or abandonment of employment.
Mississippi Telephone Solicitation Act; add "political calls" as prohibited under the act.
Group health insurance; allow local governing authorities to pay employees' benefits for dependents.
Institutions for the aged or infirm; allow electronic monitoring of residents room.
Newborn screening program; include spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in those conditions covered in.
Indecent assault; create crime of.
Civil actions; provide that property and casualty insurers have burden of proof for exclusions in "all perils" coverage policy.
Gaming; Declare certain map as official map indicating geographic area on MS Coast eligible for licensed gaming under state law.
Educator misconduct; clarify provision pertaining to inappropriate sexual activity with students.
Attorney General; exempt personnel actions form State Personnel Board.
Attorney General; revise the salary limitations of certain attorneys employed by.
Driver education program; require DPS to accept in lieu of department administering examination.
Sixteenth section funds; authorize school districts to use earned interest from once it becomes current on loans borrowed from trust funds.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Appropriation; Legislative expenses.
Appropriation; Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and trial judges services.
Appropriation; Attorney General.
Appropriation; District attorneys and staff.
Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of.
Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of.
Appropriation; Insurance, Department of.
Appropriation; Fire Academy.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Marine Resources, Department of.
Passed the House · 2
School mobile panic button program; require Department of Education to develop and implement in K-12 public schools.
Health insurance policies; require certain to provide infertility coverage and establish pilot program in State Health Plan.
In committee · 1
Appropriation; Department of Education for developing a school mobile panic button program for K-12 schools.