Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Kabir Karriem
Sponsored
In committee26
Special Prosecutor; create procedure when DA is absent or unable to perform his or her duties.
Body-worn cameras; require cities and counties to provide to police officers and deputy sheriffs.
Officer-involved death; require investigation and appointment of special prosecutor.
Expungement; authorize for all nonviolent crimes after five years.
State flag; prohibit display of current flag at or on state buildings or property until design is changed.
Youth Unemployment Task Force; create.
Youth Employment Grant Program; create.
State holidays; remove Robert E. Lee's birthday and Confederate Memorial Day as legal holidays.
Minimum wage; establish at $10.10 per hour.
Equal pay for equal work; require for employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
Parole eligibility; provide for offender who commits crime before the age of 26 after serving certain percentage of sentence.
High school curriculum; require State Board of Education to develop for instruction in civics and home economics.
African-American Studies and racial diversity; require SDE to develop curriculum for implementation in public high school.
State employees; provide for across-the-board increase in annual salaries of.
Order of support; prohibit suspension of driver's license for being out of compliance with.
Medicaid; suspend eligibility of incarcerated persons instead of terminating it.
Assistant teachers; increase minimum salary to $16,500.00.
Equal pay for equal work; require for employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
Commission to redesign the MS State Flag; establish to develop 2 options for a new flag to present to the Legislature.
The Evelyn Gandy Fair Pay Act; create.
Driver's license; authorize issuance of hardship license to persons who have their licenses suspended as a result of being out of compliance with order for support.
Absentee ballots; revise those who are authorized to vote by.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize issuance to supporters of Columbus High School.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.
Expungement; revise list of eligible crimes.
City of Columbus; authorize a tax on restaurants to provide funds for the operation and maintenance of Senator Terry Brown Amphitheater.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
City of Columbus and Lowndes County; authorize restaurant tax to fund Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitor's Bureau and revise composition of bureau.
Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act; create.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children; decriminalize for minors and improve response and support services of government agencies to.
Commercial Driver's License Act; exclude certain equipment operated by Mississippi Military Department from definition of "commercial motor vehicle."
Income tax; authorize a job tax credit for certain water transportation enterprises.
Criminal Justice Reform Act; create.
Passed the House · 5
Veterans; establish a permissive preference in private employment for certain veterans.
"Mississippi Joint Municipal Law Enforcement Act"; create.
Proclamation of a local emergency; allow president of county board of supervisors to declare.
Artificial meat; prohibit meat produced or cultured from animal tissue and plant-or insect-based food products from being labeled as meat.
Daylight saving time; observe year-round if the federal law is amended to allow it.
In committee · 18
Electric/hybrid vehicle tax; exempt certain vehicles.
Election commissioners; revise to be a nonpartisan office.
Mississippi Initiative on HBCUs; create to strengthen capacity of HBCUs to provide highest quality of education.
Online voter registration; revise to allow for first-time voters to register through.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize issuance to supporters of Starkville High School.
The Clean Slate Act; create to authorize certain people to petition the court to have arrest and conviction records sealed.
Right to vote; restore to people who committed nonviolent disqualifying crimes upon meeting certain requirements.
Electric/hybrid vehicle tax; repeal sections of law authorizing.
Early voting; authorize.
Pre-election day voting; authorize twenty-one days before the election.
Right to vote; restore automatically to certain persons who have completed all sentencing requirements.
Appropriations; Employment Security for funding Summer Youth Employment Programs.
Appropriations; Hinds County to fund development of regional wastewater treatment system to service the Hinds Parkway area.
Appropriations; Hinds County to fund completion of construction of Hinds Parkway Road Project.
Spouses and children of first responders killed in the line of duty; provide scholarship for attendance at post secondary institution.
Appropriations; Employment Security for funding Summer Youth Employment Programs.
Medicaid; seek waiver for plan to expand eligibility with regional care organizations, known as "One Mississippi".
Voting rights; restore upon satisfaction of all the sentencing requirements of a conviction.