Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Price Wallace
Sponsored
Became law1
Livestock on highways; delete burden on owner of livestock to prove lack of negligence when damages from.
Passed the House2
Littering violations; add assessment for LSBP funds.
Suffrage; restore to Randy Beckham of Simpson County.
In committee8
Radar; authorize sheriffs and deputies, in counties with a popluation of at leat 100,000 on county roads outside municipal boundaries.
School districts; provide for repeal of local governing authority's automatic approval of ad valorem tax effort increases not exceeding 4%.
Disabled parking violations; add state assessment to be used for Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation.
Mineral Rights; revert to surface owner after certain period of time.
Alternative nicotine products; include as tobacco product and increase age to 21.
Rankin County; authorize sheriff to use radar on county road.
Appropriation; City of Magee for expenses of repairing a major water leak in the city.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Mendenhall with water system improvements.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Counties; authorize boards of supervisors to pay county employees every two weeks.
Traffic accidents; require to move vehicle to certain locations in certain situations on a highway.
Passed the House · 2
Motor vehicles; add exception for title and/or registration upon selling for wrecker and auto repair service businesses.
Alternative nicotine products; regulate.
In committee · 15
Sheriffs; revise information maintained on prisoner meal logs.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize disability decal for Grand Lodge of Mississippi, Free and Accepted Masons, tag.
Municipalities; "home rule"; clarify ability of governing authority to regulate medical facilities in a way that restricts free speech in close vicinity of facilities.
The Jessica Marie Lofton Act; create the crime of selling, transferring or marketing adulterated human urine for sample chemical tests.
Certificate of Foreign Birth; authorize without judicial proceeding under certain circumstances.
Law enforcement officers; require to input missing person cases into National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NAMUS).
Emerging Crops Fund; increase maximum amount of loans made to new and existing agribusiness enterprise to $400,000.00.
"The Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2020"; enact to clarify provision related to student indebtedness.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property to volunteer fire departments for use solely in department purposes.
Mississippi Dangerous Dog Control Act; create to establish misdemeanor offense of failure to control a dangerous dog.
Statewide Elections Management System; remove voters who fail to respond to notice and who fail to vote after certain period of time from.
Optometry; State Board of Optometry shall define the practice of and not exclude certain procedures.
Historic monuments and memorials; delete authority to move.
Qualification deadline; change to February 1 for statewide and county elected officials.
ETV; Legislature not appropriate general funds to after fiscal year 2021, use funds for National Guard.