Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, Senate.
Dennis DeBar, Jr.
Sponsored
Became law5
Education Enhancement Fund; revise date of issuance and distribution of procurement cards or digital solutions for classroom supplies.
School district employee payroll; allow monthly or bimonthly payments.
Educational Facilities Revolving Loan Fund Program; create for purpose of improving educational facilities.
Procedure for the purchase of textbooks by the State Board of Education; revise provisions of.
Partnership between Energy High School Academy and Vicksburg Warren and Claiborne school districts; extend date of repeal on.
Passed the Senate7
Mississippi Adequate Education Program; bring forward statutes for possible amendment.
Unused leave accumulated by teacher who transfers to another school district; allow to be credited.
Teacher license; allow supplemental endorsement and revise provisions of issuance.
State Superintendent of Public Education and Director of the Community College Board; set maximum salaries.
District of Innovation Task Force of 2022; create.
Nationally certified school employees; delete caps on nurses & speech pathologists, add athletic trainers for salary supplements.
Teachers' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary.
Out of committee6
Accelerate Mississippi Scholarship Program; create.
School attendance officers; revise salary provisions.
Eminent domain; codify constitutional amendment.
Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District; allow to construct school on sixteenth section land.
Mississippi Year Round School Grant Program.
Equity in Distance Learning Act; revise certain provisions of.
In committee10
Education Enhancement Fund; require schools to issue teachers credentials for a digital solution or procurement card.
Nonpartisan elections; require for offices of chancery clerk, circuit clerk, tax assessor, tax collector, surveyor and coroner.
Alternative school; student placement not to exceed time limitation without first performing reassessment on placement.
School recognition program; bring forward for possible amendment to salary supplements.
College of Veterinary Medicine; admissions requirements.
Licensed educators; provide appeal rights when license suspended or revoked.
Reverse auction and bidding requirements; allow schools to use alternative methods for products not typically resold.
Standard teacher license; revise certain provisions of.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Greene County in paying costs associated with construction of MSU Extension Service.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Greene County in paying costs associated with design and construction of voting precinct.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
2022 First Extraordinary Session · Triple Crown Project Fund; create.
2022 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; additional to the Mississippi Development Authority for certain projects.
Department of Public Safety; revise salaries of officers.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; authorize for 2021 National Championship Bulldogs.
Motor vehicle loads; clarify provisions regarding illumination of loads extending beyond rear of vehicle.
COVID-19 Hospital Expanded Capacity Program; create and require MDOH to establish and administer.
Appropriation; Mental Health, Department of-ARPA funds.
Appropriation; IHL - General support.
Appropriation; IHL - Subsidiary programs.
Appropriation; IHL - Alcorn State - Agricultural Research, Extension and Land-Grant programs.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Cooperative Extension Service.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Forest and Wildlife Research Center.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Veterinary Medicine, College of.
Appropriation; IHL - Student Financial Aid.
Appropriation; Ethics Commission.
Appropriation; Judicial Performance Commission.
Appropriation; additional to Environmental Quality for the MS MCWI Grant Program-ARPA funds.
Appropriation; additional to Health Department for the Covid-19 Hospital Capacity Program and operations-ARPA funds.
Appropriation; additional to DFA-Bureau of Building,-ARPA Funds.
Appropriation; to DFA for the MAICU and Ind K-12 Grant Program, - ARPA funds.
Vetoed · 1
Appropriation; IHL - University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Passed the Senate · 17
School board members; increase pay based on enrollment.
Hospital Nurse and Allied Health Professional Retention Loan Program; create.
Bow hunting; establish a three-day season the last weekend between September 10th and 20th for legal bucks.
"MS Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (MAICU) Infrastructure Grant Program Act of 2022"; establish.
Law Enforcement Officers Death Benefits Trust Fund; include presumption of eligibility for officers with COVID-19.
Sheriffs; increase annual salaries of.
COVID-19 Destination Marketing Organization Grant Program Fund; create.
Appropriation; Child Protective Services, Department of-ARPA funds.
Appropriation; Mississippi Emergency Management Agency-ARPA funds.
Appropriation; additional to Accelerate MS for the ARPA Nurse/Health Science Workforce Programs-ARPA funds.
Appropriation; additional to IHL SFA for the Nurse and Allied Health Loan Repayment Program-ARPA funds.
Appropriation; additional to DFA for the COVID-19 DMO Grant Program, -ARPA.
Appropriation; additional to Public Safety, Department of; Coronavirus Death Benefits-ARPA funds.
Appropriation; Additional to Public Safety, Department of; for operations-ARPA funds.
Income tax; authorize credit for certain expenditures for railroad reconstruction or replacement or new rail infrastructure.
Taxation; cut grocery tax by 2%, phase out 4% income tax bracket, cut General Fund portion of car tag fees, and give rebate.
Capital Expense Funds; FY2023 appropriation to MDOT for the Emergency Road and Bridge Repair Fund.
In committee · 8
Podiatric medicine and podiatrists; revise definition of.
Hunting on streets and railroads; clarify prohibition on.
Wildlife; clarify that a conservation officer must have probable cause to conduct a search without a warrant.
All-terrain vehicles and recreational off-highway vehicles; allow tagging for operation on certain roads.
Vaccines; prevent entities that receive state funding from requiring individuals to receive COVID vaccine.
State General Funds; FY2023 approp. to State Aid Road Fund to reimburse for monies expended to counties due to HB 779 (2019).
State General Fund; FY2023 appropriation to Emergency Road and Bridge Repair Fund to be utilized by MDOT.
Eminent domain; codify constitutional amendment.