Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, House.
Dennis DeBar, Jr.
Sponsored
Became law1
Memorial highway; designate a certain segment of Mississippi Highway 63 in Greene County as the "Alan Smith and Dennis Rushing Memorial Highway."
Passed the House4
Time served on probation or post release supervision; revise reduction process of.
Visitation rights; amend Grandparents' Rights Law to include great-grandparents.
Chickasa-Leaf Barn Quilt Trail; authorize the Transportation Commission to allow for markers designating.
Central Office of the Department of Corrections; exempt from State Personnel Board procedures.
Out of committee1
Department of Corrections; require to provide cash overtime pay instead of comp time to correctional facility employees for all overtime worked.
In committee19
Dept of Corrections; provide for increase in annual compensation for correctional facility employees.
Department of Corrections; shall pay correctional facility employees for all accumulated comp time upon termination or death.
Dept. of Corrections; require to provide cash overtime pay instead of comp time to corrections supervisors & commanders for all overtime worked.
Department of Corrections; allow Personnel Board to reclassify corrections officers to provide step raises.
Dept Of Corrections; require to pay employees for all overtime worked before 7-1-15, and then pay for overtime on monthly basis.
Child Abuse; create as felony when a child is born with controlled substances in his or her body.
Conspiracy for drug crimes; clarify that conviction for shall be charged the same.
Ignition interlock; exclude persons convicted for drug DUI from use of.
Crime lab fees; revise.
Persons held in custody for contempt; cost of support during incarceration may be charged to.
Maternal Mortality Review Committee; authorize State Dept of Health to establish.
Nursing; advanced practice RNs are not required to have collaborative/consultative relationship with physician or dentist.
Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Programs (SNAP); impose certain restrictions on DHS in administering.
CON; exempt relocation of certain nursing facilities within same long-term planning district from.
Mississippi Highway 42; require MDOT to reconstruct a portion in Forrest and Perry Counties to four lanes.
Driver's license; expand eligibility for "Vet" designation to any person honorably discharged from U.S. Armed Forces.
Bonds; authorize issuance for Pat Harrison Waterway District improvements.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Wayne County with construction of justice court building.
Bonds; authorize issuance for MS Community Heritage Preservation Grant Funds, disburse grants to repair and renovate Greene County Courthouse.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers that employ certain veterans.
Task Force on the Future of Gifted Education in Mississippi; create to study.
Personal Service Contract Review Board; revise composition, exemptions, expenditures and method for reviewing single source contracts.
Persons with disabilities; require state agencies to enhance employment opportunities for.
Health plans & policies; prohibit higher copayments for patient-administered anti-cancer medications.
Mississippi Veterans Monument Commission; extend repealer on.
Bonds; authorize issuance for repair of deficient bridges on state maintained highways.
Passed the House · 14
Law Enforcement Officers Death Benefits Trust Fund; expand to include coroners and emergency management personnel.
School administrators; prohibit districts from hiring as consultant if last employed by a failing district.
Mississippi Rural Hospital Transition and Improvement Grant Program; establish.
School accountability system; remove requirement for a combined state-federal system and revise name of state standards.
Statewide testing program; require contract with single entity for comprehensive assessment system linked to college and career readiness.
Public school curriculum; require all school boards to establish for schools within local school district.
End-of-course subject area tests; prohibit mandatory passing scores as requirement for graduation.
Investigational drugs; authorize physicians to prescribe to certain eligible terminally ill patients.
Vocational education; provide additional funding to school districts demonstrating needed enhancements for.
Commission on Future of Medicaid and Health Care in Mississippi; create.
Deferred Compensation Plan; revise various provisions of.
Optional retirement program; authorize participants to join PERS under certain circumstances.
Public Employees' Retirement System; revise certain provisions regarding the administration of the system.
Mississippi Main Street Investment Act; create.
In committee · 14
Discovery; defendant entitled to in criminal cases in all courts.
State parks; require Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to provide Wi-Fi access in all.
Concealed weapons permit; exempt retired law enforcement officers.
Appropriation; Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Fund for funding bridge program.
Appropriation; Rural Fire Truck Fund for additional round of trucks under Acquisition Assistance Program.
Holy Bible; designate as state book of Mississippi.
Circuit court; provide additional judge for 12th Circuit Court District.
Deer hunting; remove certain restrictions on using supplemental feed.
Mississippi Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection Law; repeal and amend statutes to conform.
Retirement; persons convicted of certain felonies shall have benefits suspended until full restitution has been made.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Rail Authority of East Mississippi with certain costs associated with East Mississippi Intermodal Rail Corridor.
Appropriation; Dept. of Public Safety for grants to local law enforcement agencies for bullet proof vests for law enforcement officers.
Ad valorem tax; exempt certain business personal property.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.