Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Larry Byrd
Sponsored
Passed the House2
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities.
Appropriation; IHL for funding Mississippi Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program.
In committee8
Homestead exemption; increase for persons 70 years of age or older.
Bail reform; enact.
Distinctive license tag; revise persons eligible to receive Grand Lodge of Mississippi, Free and Accepted Masons tag.
Appropriation; Rural Fire Truck Fund for additional round of trucks under Acquisition Assistance Program.
Appropriation; Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund for funding bridge program.
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.
Dyslexia education; require instruction in for licensure as educator or administrator.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Weapons; clarify state preemption of local ordinances.
Driver's license; authorize reciprocal agreement with Republic of China (Taiwan).
Income tax; authorize a credit for costs paid by a company in relocating national or regional headquarters to this state.
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".
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.
Forrest County; authorize contributions to various organizations.
Passed the House · 8
Oil severance tax; revise distribution between state and counties.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Patent infringement; prohibit bad faith assertions of.
Income tax; authorize a credit for costs paid by a business enterprise to expand and relocate employees to this state.
Sales tax; exempt certain sales of nonperishable foods, certain other sales and livestock admission and parking.
Sales tax; exempt sales of firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies during Second Amendment Weekend holiday.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for the Mississippi Watershed repair and Rehabilitation Cost-Share Program.
Motor fuels tax, Certain; provide continued collection of when Groundwater Protection Trust Fund reaches $10 Million for highways & bridges.
Out of committee · 2
Left-hand lane; allow driving only if passing, turning or in an emergency.
USM property; authorize DFA to sell and convey or lease certain real property subject to certain conditions.
In committee · 21
Crimes; clarify that burglary is a violent crime.
School property; authorize district superintendents to select certain employees to carry concealed weapons on campus.
Adequate education program funds; withhold from districts failing to properly display flags or recite pledge of allegiance.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
American history and social studies curriculum; require to include instruction and text on nation's founding documents.
Concealed weapon permit; provide exception for firearm-related businesses.
Transportation; transfer law enforcement duties of MDOT to the Department of Public Safety.
Mississippi Highway 42; require MDOT to reconstruct a portion in Forrest and Perry Counties to four lanes.
School boards; elect all at presidential election for four-year terms.
School district superintendents; require all to be appointed beginning in 2016.
"The Municipal Election Reform Act of 2014"; create.
Voter Assistance; revise how an elector may receive and who can provide such to an elector.
Circuit court; provide additional judge for 12th Circuit Court District.
Weapons; prohibit public housing authorities from restricting lawful possession by residents.
Concealed weapons permit; exempt retired law enforcement officers.
Ad valorem taxes; remove the provision that prescribes the manner in which affordable rental housing must be appraised.
Mississippi Physician Shield Act; create.
Milk Producers Transportation Cost Assistance Loan Forgiveness Act of 2014; enact.
Guns; prohibit confiscation during natural disasters.
Parental rights; establish fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children.
Gas severance tax; include carbon dioxide within definition of gas and remove certain exemptions.