Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, House.
Daryl Porter
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Community Eligibility Provision of National School Lunch Program; require certain school districts to apply for.
Out of committee1
Community school; authorize implementation under the administration of a district of innovation and establish grant fund.
In committee24
Child care; DHS shall transfer to CCDF the first $40 Million of unspent TANF funds from prior FY to be used for child care vouchers.
School bus drivers; require to be trained and certified in first aid and CPR.
Conditions for parole eligibility and State Parole Board; revise repealers regarding.
Voter registration and suffrage restoration; authorize upon sentence completion and five years.
Child care services; provide eligibility for certain persons under the Child Care Payment Program (CCPP).
Emergency communications districts; require to implement text-to-911 services by a certain date.
"The Juvenile Offender Parole and Rehabilitation Act"; enact.
Voter registration; authorize upon completion of sentence.
Secretary of State; require to provide election officials training on disenfranchising crimes.
Justice court judges; authorize to run as nonpartisan.
MS Project Health Data Privacy Act; create to prohibit unauthorized disclosure of consumers' health information.
Justice court; increase jurisdiction to $5,000.00.
Registry identification card; establish electronic format of and provide certain designation for on driver's license upon request.
Unserialized firearms ("ghost guns"); create crime of possession of.
Justice courts; increase limit of jurisdiction to $15,000.00.
Justice court jurisdiction; increase to $20,000.
Conservatorship; authorize court to allow petitioner seeking approval of minor settlement to perform conservator's duties.
Community and junior colleges; authorize the board of trustees to reduce or waive out-of-state tuition for certain students.
Mississippi Education Supports for Schools Grant Program; establish to provide funds to eligible school districts for classroom resources.
Licensed child care facilities; require to purchase and maintain a certain minimum amount of liability insurance.
Appropriation; Town of Summit for purchase and installation of weather sirens.
Appropriation; City of McComb for constructing new fire station and purchasing a new fire truck.
Appropriation; Summit Community Development Foundation for development of a public park in Town of Summit.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Summit Community Development Foundation with development of a public park in the Town of Summit.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Tuskegee Airmen Day; designate the fourth Thursday in March.
The Dr. Elton Mac Huddleston Rural Veterinarians Scholarship Program; establish.
Pike County; authorize to construct or acquire county jail anywhere in county and authorize certain lease-purchase arrangement.
In committee · 30
State holiday; exclusively recognize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday on the third Monday of January.
State holiday; observe Robert E. Lee's birthday on the same day as Condederate Memorial Day.
Fresh Start Act of 2019; revise to prohibit licensing authority from requiring the disclosure of certain information and allow individual to offer certain information.
Electronic notary; clarify authority of the Secretary of State to regulate.
Helping Mississippians Afford Broadband Act; create.
Income tax; provide a credit for taxpayers who claim a federal earned income tax credit.
Income tax; authorize credit for certain child care expenses, child care centers and child care teachers and directors.
Medicaid and Human Services Transparency and Fraud Prevention Act; repeal.
ARPA Expenditures Ombudsman; establish to oversee all expenditures of ARPA funds.
Career pathways initiative; provide for development of to increase access to educational credentials for higher-paying jobs.
Appropriation; Department of Health to fund the MS Hospital Emergency Grant Program.
Habitual offender law; exclude drug and nonviolent offenses when computing prior offenses under.
"The Juvenile Offender Parole and Rehabilitation Act"; enact.
Habitual offender law; authorize parole eligibility if offender served 10 years of a sentence of 40 years or more.
Mandatory 85% sentencing rule; repeal.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; increase monthly benefit amount for.
Minimum wage; establish at $10.00 and set requirements for exemptions and overtime.
TANF funds; require PEER Committee to review and evaluate performance outcomes of subcontracts and subgrants of.
Essential health care workers premium pay; Department of Health to create program with Coronavirus Recovery Funds.
MS Hospital Emergency Grant Program; create to provide grants to hospitals having financial difficulties.
Commutation of sentences; require for certain nonviolent offenders.
Medicaid; telehealth services provided by FQHCs, rural health clinics and community mental health centers reimbursed at same rate as face-to-face encounters.
County and Municipal owned equipment; authorize use on private property during emergencies under certain circumstances.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Scenic Rivers Development Alliance with various projects.
Medicaid; direct Division of Medicaid to apply for federal waivers to expand Medicaid eligibility.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Southwest Mississippi Community College with campus improvements.
Licensure; revise reciprocity requirements for out-of-state attorneys.
Appropriation; Scenic Rivers Development Alliance for various projects in the member counties.
Appropriation; Southwest Mississippi Community College for new women's dormitory and campus infastructure projects.
Suffrage; restore to Kynoa Trotter of Pike County.