Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, House.
Jerry R. Turner
Sponsored
Became law2
Technology services; require Mississippi Department of Technology Services to consolidate those used by state agencies.
Lee County; authorize to create the Sand Creek Wastewater Authority.
Passed the House2
Trespass; create Landowner Protection Act.
Preneed contracts for funeral services; revise various provisions relating to trusts and substitute providers.
Out of committee1
Cemetery law; revise provisions relating to perpetual care trust funds and encumbering cemeteries.
In committee4
Prison lands; transfer authority to manage agricultural leases from DFA to Secretary of State.
Classroom supply funds; require annual allotment before November 1 to full-time and part-time teachers.
Rural water systems or associations; include under Open Meetings Act.
Open primaries; establish.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Child Protection Act and Child Rape Protection Act; enact.
Mississippi Highway 30 Bypass; designate in Prentiss County and the City of Booneville as "F. Wade Lambert Memorial Highway."
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery; authorize additional cemeteries.
Sales tax; exempt sales of utilities to churches.
Blind Persons' Literacy Rights and Education Act; revise.
MS Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program; create to provide dyslexic students with school choice.
Mississippi Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program; create.
Passed the House · 5
Illegal immigration; strengthen enforcement provisions to prevent.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Vessel pilots; limit and regulate liability of.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for construction of the Wellspring Center for Professional Futures.
Out of committee · 3
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Public Safety Verification and Enforcement Act; create.
Public defenders; clarify authority over employees of the office.
In committee · 9
Forestry product on 16th section land; authorize local school boards to enter into agreements to sell subject to certain approval.
Hunting and fishing licenses; authorize purchase of by any nonresident active duty military personnel at same cost as residents.
Local & private laws; require direct referendum on question of imposing a local tax.
Public assistance benefits; combined incomes of all persons in same household used to determine eligibility for.
Contractors; prohibit knowing misapplication of construction payments and prescribes penalties for violation.
Distinctive license tag; reauthorize issuance to supporters of the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; create and provide certain tax incentives for qualified businesses located in.
Appropriation; Commission on the Status of Women.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers that employ persons convicted of felony offenses.