Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Kabir Karriem
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Suffrage; restore to Kamal Karriem, Jr. of Lowndes County.
In committee33
Youth Employment Grant Program; create.
Officer-involved death; require investigation and appointment of special prosecutor.
Parole eligibility; provide for offender who commits crime before the age of 26 after serving certain percentage of sentence.
Absentee ballots; revise those who are authorized to vote by.
Special Prosecutor; create procedure when DA is absent or unable to perform his or her duties.
High school curriculum; require SBE to develop for instruction in civics and home economics.
State employees; provide for across-the-board increase in annual salaries of.
Assistant teachers; increase minimum base salary to $21,732.00, equivalent to the Southeastern average for.
African-American Studies and Racial Diversity; require SDE to develop curriculum for implementation in public high school.
Driver's license; revise certain requirements and create certificate for driving.
Driver's license; authorize hardship license for persons out of compliance for order of support or suspended due to incarceration.
Disenfranchising crimes; clarify those that qualify as.
Fresh Start Act; revised certain portions of.
Expungement; remove certain types of embezzlement from list of excluded crimes.
Commission to redesign the MS State Flag; establish to develop 2 options for a new flag to present to the Legislature.
State flag; prohibit display of current flag at or on state buildings or property until design is changed.
Body-worn cameras; require cities and counties to provide to police officers and deputy sheriffs.
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.
Land banks; authorize counties and municipalities to create to convert certain property to productive use.
School buses; require those purchased after July 1, 2020, to be equipped with seat belts.
Expungement; authorize for all nonviolent crimes after five years.
Youth Unemployment Task Force; create.
Medicaid; suspend eligibility of incarcerated persons instead of terminating it.
Expungement; revise list of eligible crimes.
Hemp production; require Department of Agriculture and MDA to adhere to statutory provision concerning small business and minority business enterprises.
The Evelyn Gandy Fair Pay Act; create.
Equal pay for equal work; require for women in the same work establishment.
Public construction; exempt projects for $50,000 or less than performance bond requirements.
Low interest revolving loan program; establish to provide low interest loans to qualified individuals.
State holidays; remove Robert E. Lee's birthday as legal holidays.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.
Inmate Release Reform; revise provisions regulating sentencing and release of those convicted of certain violations.
Appropriations; Mississippi Development Authority to fund minority disparity study.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
State offenders; extend repealer on authority to house in county jails when state space is unavailable.
Part-time law enforcement officers; revise salary threshold determination for deputy sheriffs and police officers.
Mississippi Pandemic Response Broadband Availability Act; create.
State Flag; revise with a commission and require words "In God We Trust."
Vetoed · 1
Felony conviction expungements; revise number that one may be eligible for.
Passed the House · 13
Nonadjudication of criminal case; includes crimes listed as crimes of violence under Section 97-3-2 for felonies.
Sexting by minors; provide as a delinquent act.
Veterans; establish a permissive preference in private employment for certain veterans.
Student club funds; clarify use and accounting practices by school districts.
Teacher licensure; revise qualifications for candidates to enter an approved teacher education program.
Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a District of Innovation.
"Mississippi Hemp Cultivation Act"; enact to provide for regulation of hemp.
Armed Services Absentee Voting Law; expand definition of "absent voter" to include those working in federal waters of United States.
Commissioner of Corrections, and community corrections; bring forward various sections relating to.
Corrections omnibus bill; enact.
Alternative nicotine products; regulate.
Compassionate Parole Eligibility Act of 2020; create.
Inmate Welfare Fund; require DOC to expend unused portions of the fund on reentry purposes.
In committee · 18
Corporal punishment; prohibit administration of in public and charter schools for disciplinary matters.
Starkville High School AP Government Class of 2019 Motor Voter Act; create to establish the procedure for the automatic registration of voters.
Health insurance carriers; require to cap patient cost for prescriptions for insulin drugs.
Firearms; prohibit discharge near petroleum.
Family dynamics; include in public school curriculum as a required component.
Retail businesses; those that accept credit cards for payment shall have video cameras to record persons using the cards.
Bonds; authorize issuance for improvements to the Jackson Public School District's Career Development Center.
Early voting; authorize for qualified electors otherwise unable to vote on election day.
Optometry; State Board of Optometry shall define the practice of and not exclude certain procedures.
Adoptions; limit amount of fee charged to adoptees requesting nonidentifying information regarding.
TANF Funds; require Department of Human Services to submit report to Legislature if certain allocated funds are not used.
TANF recipients; establish program to provide wage subsidies to employers who hire.
TANF program; PEER Committee shall conduct an annual review of expenditures of TANF funds.
TANF; require Department of Human Services to allocate maximum amount allowable under federal law to child care services.
TANF; increase maximum monthly amount of benefits.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Clay, Lowndes and Oktibbeha Counties with certain road projects.
Appropriation; Lee and Monroe Counties for funding National Resource Camp pilot program.
Appropriation; Itawamba Community College for funding Vocational Education and Technology Camp in Lee and Monroe Counties.