Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Richard Bennett
Sponsored
Became law5
Contracts; authorize persons eighteen years of age or older to enter into for the purpose of investing in mutual funds.
County and public libraries; repeal certain provisions related to.
Commission on School Accreditation; clarify membership composition.
Teachers' and teacher's assistants' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary.
MS Coast Transportation Authority; authorize to bear the full cost of processing electronic payments.
Passed the House2
Public purchasing laws; exempt purchase of nonadopted and adopted textbooks by MDE for nonpubilc schools.
Charter schools; revise deadlines for certain reporting requirements and to allow certain teacher units to those in first year of operation.
Out of committee1
State Department of Education; permit to receive various contributions from public or private donors.
In committee13
Student club funds; clarify use and accounting practices by school districts.
Gifted education; require school districts to provide for students in Grades 7 and 8.
Kindergarten-age children; require mandatory attendance under compulsory school attendance laws.
National board certification annual salary supplement; remove cap on number of nurses and speech-language pathologists eligible for.
Newborn screening program; include spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in those conditions covered in.
Mississippi Emergency Communications Act; create.
Licensed school employees and administrators; suspend license for one year for breach of contract or abandonment of employment.
Education waivers; provide for schools relative to the Statewide Testing Program; accountability ratings and Literacy-Based Promotion assessments.
Educator and administrator misconduct; clarify provisions for disciplinary matters and administrative procedures and appeals.
Charter schools; revise certain provisions of.
School recognition program; bring forward.
MAEP; remove the requirement for collection of fees in lieu of taxes as a portion of local contribution requirement.
Sales tax; revise counties eligible for diversion of revenue from certain tax increment financing projects.
Co-sponsored
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State flag; shall be the design recommended by the Commission to Redesign the State Flag and approved in the November 2020 election.
Computer science curriculum; require State Department of Education to implement in K-12 public schools.
Early Learning Collaborative Act of 2013; revise funding and specify teaching standards.
Charter vessel operator's permit; create to authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages by the holder of.
Appropriation; District attorneys and staff.
Appropriation; Insurance, Department of.
Appropriation; Fire Academy.
Appropriation; Legislative expenses.
Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of.
Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of.
Appropriation; Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and trial judges services.
Appropriation; Attorney General.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Marine Resources, Department of.