Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, Senate.
Kevin Blackwell
Sponsored
Became law3
Depositories; revise bid process for selection by counties and municipalities.
Health department; authorize certain charges for services with other agencies for operation of medical marijuana program.
Mississippi Medicaid Program; make technical amendments to reimbursements and administration.
Passed the Senate5
Health Care Certificate of Need; bring forward section.
City of Olive Branch; authorize 1% tax on hotels and motels and issuance of bonds for tourism and parks and recreation.
Hunting; allow air guns, air bows and pre-charged pneumatic weapons, and authorize special seasons for CWD sample collection.
Arrest warrants; authorize electronic signatures.
Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act; create.
Out of committee2
Universal Recognition of Occupational Licenses Act; enact.
Mississippi Medical Marijuana Program; create and provide fines, administration requirements, and fees related to the program.
In committee40
Durable medical equipment; fix Medicaid reimbursement rate at 100% of Medicare rate.
Medicaid reimbursement; authorize for accredited community mental health service providers.
Physical therapy practice laws; revise various provisions of.
Advanced practice registered nurses; revise certain provisions relating to, including collaboration requirement.
Nurse practitioners; authorize to dispense legend drugs to patients.
Statute of limitations; except sexual battery from.
Affidavit ballots; reduce length of time within which certain persons must present proper voter ID or execute religious exemption.
Online voter registration; revise to allow for first-time voters to register through.
Secretary of State Statewide Elections Management System; provide for voter's proof of citizenship.
Marking election ballots; delete option of using indelible pencil to mark ballots.
Health insurance carriers; require to cap patient cost for prescriptions for insulin drugs.
Travel Insurance Act of 2021; create.
Local governmental entities; prohibit from requiring a license for certain businesses operated by a minor.
Health care CON review; party requesting or appealing a hearing on application is responsible for costs and attorney fees.
Deer hunting; allow the use of electronically amplified sound devices.
Medicaid Access and Opportunity Act of 2021; enact.
Civics Test; require passing score for high school graduates and high school equivalency diploma applicants.
Local school board members; prescribe salary scale based on school district student enrollment.
Bonds; authorize to assist Marshall County in improving Barringer Road for Chickasaw Trail Industrial Park access.
Bonds; authorize to assist Marshall County in building emergency response center to serve Chickasaw Trail Industrial Park.
Ad valorem tax on inventory; phase in exemption for certain small businesses.
Appointed state officers; provide for the removal of for certain forms of willful neglect.
Regulatory Reduction Program; require certain pilot agencies to implement.
Cleaning private property; revise county procedures used to clean property adjudicated a menace to public health and safety.
Mississippi Student Absentee Voter Act; enact.
Medicaid reimbursement for assisted living services under federal waivers; authorize assessment and exemption from 5% reduction.
Motor vehicle tags; allow legislators to have both legislator and regular/personalized tags and display them alternately.
Ad valorem taxes; consider annexed business "new enterprise" for purposes of eligibility for certain municipal tax exemptions.
Elections; public official's qualification as candidate deemed resignation of current office.
Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases Compact; enact and prescribe provisions.
Local governmental entities; may publish public notices online.
Mississippi Election Reform Act of 2021; enact.
Travel Insurance Act of 2021; create.
Practice of optometry; require the State Board of Optometry to define with certain exceptions.
Mississippi Medicaid program; extend repealer on services and provider reimbursement rates.
Assessment levied on health care facilities for Medicaid program; make technical amendments to.
Division of Medicaid; make technical amendments.
Division of Medicaid; make technical amendments and revise assessment provision.
Marshall County; expand boundaries of Marshall Utility Services Sewer District.
City of New Albany; authorize to lease fiber to internet service providers for provision of broadband service.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
State parks; change name of Natchez State Park to "Bob M. Dearing Natchez State Park."
MAEP; Department of Education required to hold harmless school district from calculating 2020-2021 average daily attendance.
Mississippi Dementia Care Program, Food Bank Pilot Programming; create.
Teacher license; allow reciprocity if teacher possesses standard license from other state and passes background check.
Mississippi Advantage Jobs Act; revise definition of "new direct job" for incentive applicants from and after July 1, 2010.
Appropriation; Audit, Department of.
Appropriation; Banking and Consumer Finance, Department of.
Appropriation; Governor's Office and Mansion.
Appropriation; Information Technology Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Development Authority, Mississippi.
Appropriation; Personnel Board.
Appropriation; Secretary of State.
Appropriation; Treasurer's Office.
Appropriation; Debt Service-Gen. Obli.
Vetoed · 1
Appropriation; Finance and Administration, Department of.
Passed the Senate · 6
Teachers' salaries; provide for increase.
Firearms; prohibit local governments and state agencies from restricting possession.
Autopsies; provide for confidentiality of photographs and recordings of.
William F. Winter and Jack Reed, Sr., Teacher Loan Repayment Program; create.
Nonadmitted insurer policy fee; divert certain amount to fund fire trucks and fire apparatus/protection grants.
Mississippi Flexible Tax Incentive Act; create.
In committee · 3
Hate crimes; revise delineation of victim.
Homochitto National Forest Dog Permit; authorize statewide.
Disposal of certain municipal records after 20 years; authorize.