Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, Senate.
Dennis DeBar, Jr.
Sponsored
Became law3
Preschool reporting requirements; revise technical provisions related thereto.
Driver's education; revise certain provisions related thereto.
Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; revise definition of "qualified resort area."
Passed the Senate11
Local supplement for assistant teachers; prohibit school districts from reducing when given state minimum raise.
Education data; authorize the Department of Education to report aggregate data in compliance with federal standards.
MDOT; authorize the transfer and conveyance of certain real property to the Board of Supervisors of Greene County.
MAEP; revise funding formula.
Mississippi Modified School Calendar Grant Program; establish and provide eligibility criteria.
State Workforce Investment Board; make technical changes to provisions related thereto.
Assistant teachers; revise certain licensure requirements.
MS Critical Teacher Shortage Act of 1998; extend repealer on.
Department of Education; to require to study and develop guidance on technology, nutrition and transportation.
State subject area tests and accountability standards; replace with college prep test and revise provisions.
Charter schools; set certain school accreditation rating requirements for renewal of charter.
Out of committee3
The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act; extend repealer.
Open enrollment; allow school district transfer if transferee board accepts, guarantee for active duty military children.
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science; relocate to the campus of Mississippi State University.
In committee14
Practice of Podiatric Medicine; provide certain requirements to perform specific surgeries.
School boards; authorize to vote on providing members and their dependents with health insurance paid for by local funds.
Groceries; exempt from state sales tax, and authorize municipalities to levy sales tax up to 1%.
Accumulated leave time for teachers; allow to transfer.
Age of majority; revise.
School attendance officers; transfer responsibility of employment from MDE to local school districts.
Tim Tebow Act; allow homeschooled children to participate in extracurricular activity within their school district.
Financial literacy curriculum; require specific courses in public schools in grades six through twelve.
School boards; delete staggered terms of members, require four-year terms, require election to be held during statewide election.
School superintendents; authorize school districts to elect and reinstate previous sections related thereto.
Judicial districts; create new chancery and circuit court district.
State Employees Life and Health Insurance Plan; bring forward provisions for possible amendment.
State aircraft; authorize purchase of from lowest and best bidder between two competitive, solicited bids.
Greene County; extend repeal date on assessments in justice court.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Sales tax; move the back-to-school sales tax holiday to the second Friday in July.
Nonprofit agricultural membership organization; authorize to issue health insurance and exempt from insurance regulation.
Appropriation; IHL - General support.
Appropriation; IHL - Subsidiary programs.
Appropriation; IHL - Alcorn State - Agricultural 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; IHL - University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Appropriation; Ethics Commission.
Appropriation; Judicial Performance Commission.
Appropriation; Public Safety, Department of.
Passed the Senate · 2
Defending Affordable Prescription Drug Costs Act; enact to prohibit discriminating against 340B drug discount program entities.
Missing or unidentified persons; provide procedures regarding investigation of.
In committee · 1
Kemp's ridley sea turtle; designate as official state turtle.