Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, House.
Lester Carpenter
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Concealed firearms on school premises; require local school board to adopt policy authorizing certain school employees to carry.
In committee13
Sales tax; remove requirement that certain taxpayers pay June liability for the tax on or before June 25.
Gaming; percentage of proceeds of charitable bingo game must be expended in county where game was conducted.
Pregnancy; provide crime of child abuse for women using illegal drugs during.
Medicaid; provide civil immunity to physician Medicaid providers for services provided to Medicaid recipients.
Traffic safety violator course; provide that it may be an Internet course.
Income tax; authorize a credit for purchase and installation of solar water heater system.
Student speech; grant immunity to school officials allowing amplified student messages consistent with district policy.
Mississippi Electronic Protection Licensing Act; create by reusing the Residential Protection Licensing Act.
Dept. of Health regulations for advanced life support personnel; define EMT-paramedic critical care.
CON; require for new offering of certain services.
Electronic citation; allow for traffic, misdemeanor and other citation.
Volunteer fire departments; increase amount insurance company required to pay for response to fire.
Suffrage; restore to James Lee Dunn of Alcorn County, Mississippi.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Municipal, county and state executive committees; prohibit those who violate the public trust from serving on.
MS Public Records Act; exempt weapon permit information.
Mississippi Highway 15; designate certain bridge in Chickasaw County as the "Representative William E. 'Billy' Bowles Memorial Bridge".
Check Cashers Act; reenact and delete repealer on.
Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program; increase maximum number of students eligible to 20.
Passed the House · 7
Law Enforcement Officers Death/Disability Benefits Trust Funds; expand to include emergency management personnel and provide additional funding.
Vessel pilots; limit and regulate liability of.
Post-conviction relief; revise time limitation.
Private investigators; require to show proof of licensure before getting driver's license.
Reading Proficiency Program; establish in public schools to achieve grade level reading by end of 3rd grade.
Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act; create.
Justice court judges; revise the number for counties of 35,000 or less.
Out of committee · 2
Parental rights; establish fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children.
Firearm Protection Act; enact.
In committee · 28
Medicaid; prohibit division from implementing or operating any managed care program after July 1, 2014.
School superintendents; revise minimum qualifications for elected and appointed.
Election polling places; specify persons who may be present.
Human Trafficking; revise.
Homestead exemption; increase for persons 70 years of age or older.
Mental health; executive director of the department shall be appointed by the Governor.
Appropriation; Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund for funding bridge program.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
Appropriation; Rural Fire Truck Fund for additional round of trucks under Acquisition Assistance Program.
Appropriation; IHL for funding Mississippi Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program.
Court reporters; regulate procedures related to the recording of legal proceedings.
Sex-related education; revise to clarify the instructional approach to the topic of abortion in the adopted curriculum.
Contractors; provide method to receive payment when services have been terminated.
Community colleges; waive tuition for residents of state and allow colleges to develop out-of-state waiver policy.
Firearms; declare that are not subject to federal law or regulation if manufactured and contained within Mississippi.
Community health workers; prohibit activities within scope of practice of other professions without being licensed.
Mississippi Health Care Freedom of Choice Act; create.
Implied Consent Law; provide increased penalties for 4th and 5th offenses.
Retired public employees; authorize Dept. of Safety to issue license or personal identification card indicating retired status.
MDOT law enforcement officers; authorize to enforce implied consent law.
Mississippi Food Freedom Act; enact to provide greater autonomy to private producers of agricultural or farm products.
Retirement; exclude value of noncash maintenance furnished to new PERS members for retirement purposes.
Firearm Protection Act; enact.
Public funds; prohibit use of to pay cost of drugs used for treatment of sexual or erectile dysfunction.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Extracurricular and athletic activities; require students to maintain a 2.0 weekly grade point average for participation.
Crisis Intervention Teams; revise various provisions of laws providing for.
Parole; require offender serve at least 1/3 of sentence and that commissioner recommend parole before offender is eligible for.