Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, Senate.
Derrick T. Simmons
Sponsored
In committee8
Appropriations FY2013; State Department of Health, Taborian Urgent Care Center medical services.
Simple and aggravated assault; revise personnel triggering enhanced penalty.
Salaries of judges, district attorneys and assistant district attorneys; increase/establish funding.
Habitual offender; expunged offenses not to count towards.
Domestic abuse courts; authorize implementation.
Workers' compensation; increase maximum total recovery and remove cap on permanent total disability compensation.
Helmets; revise safety standard for minors on ATVs.
Tax assessors and collectors; increase salaries.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Counterfeit controlled substances; prohibit sale, manufacture or possession.
Youth court; permit referral to drug court and prohibit sex offender access to MYCIDS, beaches and campgrounds.
Traffic citations; camera citations from another state not placed on driver's record in this state.
Scholarship funding; modify the FY2012 IHL appropriation bill to provide additional special funds for the Critical Needs Scholarship Fund.
Voyeurism; create felony offense when victim is under 16.
Memorial highway; designate a certain portion of MS Highway 245 in Chickasaw County as the Carl J. "Jack" Gordon, Jr. Memorial Highway.
Highway Patrol; remove repealer on minimum qualifications and authorize designation of veterans on driver's license.
Public land at Mississippi State Penitentiary; authorize Secretary of State to lease for wind power generation projects.
Dual enrollment-dual credit work skills certificate program in high school and community college; establish pilot program.
Appropriation; IHL - General support.
Passed the Senate · 9
Highways; designate U.S. Highway 82 as "Mississippi Heritage Highway."
Ad valorem taxes; authorize counties and municipalities to exempt vehicles of military personnel who receive eminent danger pay.
Controlled substances; acquiring by theft, fraud and the like.
Crimes; create offense of lewd and lascivious acts or obscene electronic communication regarding minors under 16.
Child support guidelines; presumed to be reasonable for adjusted gross income within a certain range.
Child support enforcement by Department of Human Services; conform to certain federal requirements regarding modification.
Business improvement districts; extend the period for which they are authorized and revise certain vote requirements.
Karen's Law; revise punishment for manslaughter of certain child victims.
Lonnie Smith Act; revise elements of the offense of felonious child abuse.
In committee · 14
Official Mississippi state song; authorize two state songs.
Local system roads; allow portion of state aid allocated to counties to be used to retire debt for.
Suffrage; provide for immediate restoration upon completion of sentence and other conditions.
Bonds; authorize issuance of general obligation bonds to repair, renovate & refurbish Cotesworth Culture and Heritage Center.
Alcohol-free motor fuels; ensure the availability of.
Judicial and district attorney salaries; increase.
Appropriations; Mississippi Department of Health, Sunflower County Prevention of Teen Pregnancy Pilot Program.
Individual development accounts; authorize for certain low-income individuals.
Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law; applies to students through age 18 and increase penalties for parents.
Abstinence-plus sex education as required curriculum in public schools; provide for.
Food purchased by state agencies/local governing authorities for sponsored events; require healthy food.
Disparity study; require MDA to file copies with the Legislature by not later than December 31, 2012.
Bonds; authorize to assist in the establishment of the GRAMMY Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi.
Bonds; authorize for the Tammy Wynette Legacy Park Center.