Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, Senate.
Daniel H. Sparks
Sponsored
Became law6
Consumer Alternative Installment Loan Act; create a cap adjustment based on the loan amount.
State Workforce Investment Board; amend to allow for proxy participation in meetings to meet quorum.
Mississippi Prison Industries Corporation; clarify conflicts in laws concerning leadership.
Mississippi Real Estate Commission; remove Home Inspector Board.
Public official appointments; revise terms of office and appointment procedures on certain state boards, districts and agencies.
Tobacco excise tax; provide rate for heated tobacco products.
Passed the Senate7
State employee telework policies; amend.
Office of Workforce Development; extend exemption from PPRB provisions on rental/leasing of real property for agency business.
Alternative Incarceration Methodology (AIM) and intervention courts; bring forward statutes related thereto.
Parole and probation officers' study committee; study transferring authority and functions to DPS.
Police chiefs and officers; require certain continuing education.
Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act; amend certain provisions related to the filing of motions under.
Administrative Office of Courts; bring forward code sections related to.
In committee13
Law enforcement officers; entitled to certain follow-up drug testing before loss of certification.
Law enforcement officers; regulate payment for nonexempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Small business lending program; create.
Real estate; amend property condition disclosure statement liability.
Reverse auction requirements for procurement; exempt certain training equipment.
Mississippi Kratom Consumer Protection Act; enact.
"Mississippi Earned Parole Eligibility Act"; extend repealer and authorize parole for certain juvenile homicide offenders.
Giglio letter; require prosecutors to give law enforcement officers an opportunity to be heard before sending.
Wire fraud; require banks to report to the Secret Service and MOHS.
Intervention courts; bring forward code sections related to.
"Task Force on Residential Home Ownership and Attainability in Mississippi"; establish.
Sales tax revenue; increase diversion to municipalities from 18.5% to 19.5%, and create 10% diversion to counties.
City of Fulton; extend repealer on hotel/motel tourism tax.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Mississippi Prior Authorization Reform Act; enact.
Sheriffs; revise cap on annual salary supplement.
Mississippi Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Act and the Mississippi Uniform Agents Act; revise provisions of.
The Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefits Trust Fund; bring forward provision related to.
Mississippi Foreign Land Ownership Act; create.
Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Program Act; create.
SAFER Act; enact.
Retainage; further define and outline the process related to.
Foster care and adoption; revise provisions related to per recommendations of task force.
Nonprofit agricultural membership organization; authorize to issue health insurance and exempt from insurance regulation.
Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo Counties; extend authority to contribute to NE MS Comm. Servs.
Vetoed · 1
CCID inferior Court and DPS; revision provisions related to.
Passed the Senate · 3
Utility Service; prevent government restrictions based on energy source required.
Retired teachers; authorize to receive PERS benefits and work full-time in certain critical shortage areas.
State subject area tests and accountability standards; replace with college prep test and revise provisions.