Bills in the 2016 Regular Session, House.
Jeff Hale
Sponsored
Became law2
Law Enforcement Officers' Death Benefits Trust Fund; revise eligibility of.
DeSoto County; authorize regional utility authority to acquire credit card and sell surplus property.
Passed the House1
Bonds; authorize issuance for capital improvements at the Mississippi State Fire Academy.
In committee8
Bench warrants; provide that failure to appear in municipal court shall be a misdemeanor.
Ballots; revise number required to be printed.
Election Commissioners; require terms to be staggered.
Alarm contracting; require continuing education for only employees that hold a Class B license.
Traffic signal light; direct MDOT to install and operate at certain intersection in Desoto County.
Resolution Board; require to attend training for membership on.
Unclaimed dead bodies; require coroners, instead of board of supervisors, to direct burial or cremation of.
Counties and cities; regulate formation and legal administration of homeowner's associations.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Death certificates; Vital Records shall issue five copies without charge for deceased veterans.
Parole board; authorize to revoke parole and impose remaining time if parolee committs a felony or absconds supervision.
State buildings; rename the PERS building as the "Timothy Alan (Tim) Ford Building."
"Mississippi Church Protection Act"; create.
Memorial highway ; designate segment of Mississippi Highway 182 in the City of Columbus as the "Rep. Esther M. Harrison Memorial Highway."
Passed the House · 8
Offenders on post release supervision; strike reference that an arrest is a technical violation.
State vehicles; authorize DOC commissioner use of specified unmarked vehicles to prevent hindrance of official investigations.
Firearms; clarify meaning of courthouse and courtroom for purpose of carrying.
Noah's Law; create.
Firearms; restrict regulations by certain public bodies regarding.
Firearms; prohibit enforcement of certain federal law relating to.
Vaccinations; authorize exemptions for medical purposes.
Military officers and employees; grant leave of absence from civil occupations in public or private business.
In committee · 42
County vehicles and road equipment; authorize boards of supervisors to allow use between county departments.
Proclamation of a local emergency; allow boards of supervisors to authorize certain county officials to declare.
Governing authorities of counties and cities; authorize to recover actual costs of enforcing ordinance, zoning law or regulation.
Governing authorities of counties and cities; authorize to adopt rules that provide authority to prepay certain expenses.
Offender who absconds supervision; provide period of parole shall not toll and shall not reduce period of parole supervision.
Sex offenders who have committed a registration violation; revise time period that such offenders must be electronically monitored by DOC.
Conditions for release of parole-eligible inmates without hearing; make applicable for inmates convicted on or after July 1, 2014.
Traffic signal lights; direct MDOT to install and operate at certain intersection in DeSoto County.
Mississippi Highway 305; expedite construction of segment in DeSoto County to five lanes.
Data monitoring and alert system for sex offenders who fail to register; provide certain revisions to.
Offenders convicted of a crime of violence; strike reference that such offenders are eligible for parole.
Case plan for parole-eligible inmates; require only for inmates convicted on or after July 1, 2014.
Emergency leave for certain offenders due to death/sickness in family; provide DOC with discretion in determining if security escort is needed for.
Retirement; persons convicted of certain felonies shall have benefits suspended until full restitution has been made.
Ad valorem tax; remove the provision that prescribes the manner in which affordable rental housing must be appraised.
Homeowners' associations; regulate the formation and legal administration of.
Firearms; prohibit special taxation by cities and counties.
Vaccinations; allow exemption from requirement for school attendance based on religious or philosophical beliefs.
State Superintendent of Education; salary set by State Board of Education subject to approval of State Personnel Board.
Social studies and history curriculum; prohibit revisions to courses due to philosophical purposes.
School attendance; authorize exemptions from vaccinations for medical reasons or conscientious beliefs for.
Parental Authority Act; create.
Payroll date for school district employees; authorize semimonthly payroll in discretion of local school board.
Public school curriculum; require State Board of Education to review and revise.
State Board of Education; prohibit from taking certain actions related to subject matter curriculum.
MS Statewide Teacher Appraisal Rubric (M-STAR): discontinue and require local districts to adopt teacher evaluation system.
Online curriculum; create "Parent Access" to require school districts to provide parents of certain students access to.
Sixteenth section lands; authorize Secretary of State to manage for districts under conservatorship.
Hunter education course requirement; exempt for residents who are active duty, retired or honorably discharged members of the Armed Forces.
Compact for Education; provide for the automatic repeal of on July 1, 2017.
Community colleges; county taxes collected for shall be transmitted directly to instead of to chancery clerk.
Taxes collected for community colleges; require Dept. of Revenue to settle with colleges rather than county clerks.
Commercial Mobile Radio Service charge; distributions to CMRS Fund and emergency communications districts; revise.
Weight tolerance; authorize for vehicles hauling animal feed to a farm.
The Patient Choice Act of 2016; enact.
Firearms; remove license requirement to carry concealed in a holster on a person's body.
DUI; revise third conviction penalties.
Seized weapon; require to be returned to owner, if charges dismissed or person acquitted.
Concealed carry permit, enhanced; revise qualifications for military members or veterans.
State and United States flag; require state universities to display when in session.
Local privilege taxes; eliminate.
Appropriation; Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel for representing all post-capital conviction appeals.