Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Jerry R. Turner
Sponsored
Became law4
Unemployment benefits; prohibit charging experience rating of employers for payment of employees who leave to accept other work.
Public records; limit cost to respond to records request and provide civil penalty.
State agency purchasing; require procurement portal to provide information to vendors and include on Transparency MS website.
State Auditor; authorize to conduct audits of state-funded economic development projects.
Passed the House5
Districts of Innovation; authorize State Board of Education to approve creation of in local school districts.
Mississippi Promise Community College Tuition Gap Pilot Program; create.
Personal Service Contract Review Board; revise composition of and remove exemption of certain contracts from board review.
Duplicate license; prohibit public bodies from requiring licensees to appear in person to receive.
Unmarked vehicles; authorize use by DFA & Commissioner of Insurance when identifying marks will hinder official investigations.
Out of committee5
Corrections; require inmate fund to be a special fund and require RFPs for administration of canteen services.
Corrections; require Inmate Fund to be special fund, require RFP's for canteen services and revise contract amount to be reviewed by Procurement Review Board.
Corrections; decrease maximum term of agricultural leases and provide certain advertisement for such leases.
Boards and commissions; revise various provisions and abolish certain inactive.
Public records; revise requirements for production of records related to negotiations of purchases, contracts and leases.
In committee14
School districts; revise provisions regarding the hiring of certain persons.
Prison lands; transfer authority to manage agricultural leases from DFA to Secretary of State.
Department of Corrections; revise the contract amount that must be approved by the Public Procurement Review Board.
Open meetings law; enhance transparency & remove exemption from law for public hospitals.
Attorney for county or municipality; provide transparency regarding compensation of.
Agricultural lease of prison lands; transfer management of from DFA to Secretary of State and reduce lease period.
Administrative procedures act; revise to allow small business to have streamlined adjudicatory proceeding.
Public records; access not diminished because stored in certain manner.
Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983; revise enforcement.
Open meetings law; revise judicial review.
Personal Service Contract Review Board; abolish and transfer its powers and duties to State Personnel Board.
Personal Service Contract Review Board; delete exemption from review by for certain professional services contracts.
Corrections; require Inmate Fund to be a special fund and require RFPs for administration of canteen services.
Sports officials; create offense of assaulting.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Executive Committee; prohibit certain persons from serving on municipal, county and state.
Memorial highways; designate segment in Clay County as the "Representative David Gibbs Memorial Highway".
Rights of individual's with a terminal condition; require payment of health insurance and Medicaid benefits.
Tourism project sales tax incentive program; revise definition of term project and extend; create new hotel incentive.
Abortion; prohibit performing at or after 20 weeks.
Law Enforcement Officers Death/Disability Benefits Trust Fund; expand coverage to include emergency management personnel & increase benefit.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Forestry Commission.
Appropriation; Foresters, Board of Registration for.
Appropriation; Soil and Water Conservation Commission.
Vetoed · 1
Regional correctional facilities; remove cap on number of state inmates for which DOC is authorized to contract for the housing of inmates.
Passed the House · 5
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Uniform hospital claims form; Insurance Commissioner develop to use for all hospital services reimbursement claims.
Sheriffs and constables; revise fees charged for service of process.
Gale Stauffer, Jr. and Joseph Maher Law Enforcement Act of 2014; create.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for the Mississippi Watershed repair and Rehabilitation Cost-Share Program.
Out of committee · 2
Mississippi Patient Protection Act of 2014; enact.
Finance charges; charges & premiums for credit insurance & auto club memberships by small loan licenses not considered as.
In committee · 17
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Volunteer fire departments; increase amount insurance company required to pay for response to fire.
CPR/AED; require to be included in physical education curriculum as a requirement for graduation.
School Start Date Act; repeal to allow local school boards to determine the start of a new academic year as prescribed in Section 37-13-61.
Transportation; transfer law enforcement duties of MDOT to the Department of Public Safety.
Adoption; revise home study and residency requirements.
School boards; elect all at presidential election for four-year terms.
Dyslexia education; require instruction in for licensure as educator or administrator.
"The Municipal Election Reform Act of 2014"; create.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
Weapons; prohibit public housing authorities from restricting lawful possession by residents.
Ad valorem taxes; remove the provision that prescribes the manner in which affordable rental housing must be appraised.
Medicaid; provide civil immunity to physician Medicaid providers for services provided to Medicaid recipients.
Certain personal service contracts for DOC; place under the purview of Personal Service Contract Review Board.
Community work centers; require hearing before Department of Corrections may close.
Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefits Fund; increase benefit and funding for.
Gas severance tax; include carbon dioxide within definition of gas and remove certain exemptions.