Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, Senate.
Kevin Blackwell
Sponsored
Became law4
Hunting; allow air guns, air bows and pre-charged pneumatic weapons, and authorize special seasons for CWD sample collection.
Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act; create.
City of Olive Branch; authorize 1% tax on hotels and motels and issuance of bonds for tourism and parks and recreation.
State employees; provide the terms and conditions for state employees to engage in telework.
Passed the Senate9
Travel Insurance Act of 2022; create.
Recipients of Medicaid; extend postpartum coverage up to 12 months.
Appointed state officers; provide for the removal of for certain forms of willful neglect.
Mississippi Development Authority; require periodic PEER review of effectiveness of Tourism Advertising Fund expenditures.
Arrest warrants; authorize electronic signatures.
Mississippi Medicaid Program; make technical amendments to reimbursement and administration.
Medicaid State Plan; allow to operate under previous plan if disapproved.
Medicaid services; require Medicaid to reimburse licensed birthing centers and to seek necessary waivers.
Legal service contracts; clarify exemption from Public Procurement Review Board.
Out of committee2
Board of Cosmetology and Barbering; create, and abolish Board of Barber Examiners.
Medicaid reimbursement; allow for border city university-affiliated pediatric hospitals to be reimbursed.
In committee40
Local governmental entities; prohibit from requiring a license for certain businesses operated by a minor.
Cleaning private property; revise county procedures used to clean property adjudicated a menace to public health and safety.
Health insurance carriers; require to cap patient cost for prescriptions for insulin drugs.
Local school board members; prescribe salary scale based on school district student enrollment.
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.
Ad valorem taxes; consider annexed business "new enterprise" for purposes of eligibility for certain municipal tax exemptions.
Ad valorem tax on inventory; phase in exemption for certain small businesses.
Nurse practitioners; physician assistants and clinical nurse specialists; allow to prescribe home health services.
Nurse practitioners; authorize to dispense legend drugs to patients.
Podiatric medicine and podiatrists; revise definition of.
Regulatory Reduction Program; require certain pilot agencies to implement.
Immunization; require hospitals to offer immunization against the influenza virus to all inpatients 50 or older prior to discharge.
Advanced practice registered nurses; revise certain provisions relating to, including collaboration requirement.
Bonds; increase authorized bond amount for emergency response center for Chickasaw Trail Industrial Park in Marshall County.
Statute of limitations; except sexual battery from.
Medicaid Upper Payment Limits Program; provide payments to emergency ambulance transportation providers.
Marking election ballots; delete option of using indelible pencil to mark ballots.
Department of Corrections; create the Division of Parole to perform the administrative and fiscal functions of the Parole Board.
MDOC; create Division of Reentry and Prison Industry within.
Medicaid; bring forward provider assessment provisions.
Correctional auditor; revise duties.
Online voter registration; revise to allow for first-time voters to register through.
Ballots; require certain information on the front of and require watermark on absentee voter ballots.
Secretary of State Statewide Elections Management System; provide for voter's proof of citizenship.
Mississippi Election Reform Act of 2022; enact.
Legislative offices; define vacancy.
Mississippi Student Absentee Voter Act; enact.
Affidavit ballots; reduce length of time within which certain persons must present proper voter ID or execute religious exemption.
Elections; public official's qualification as candidate deemed resignation of current office.
State universities; require to develop mechanism for compiling data on state-funded projects and submit annual report.
Health care CON review; party requesting or appealing a hearing on application is responsible for costs and attorney fees.
Physical therapy practice laws; revise various provisions of.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; authorize for supporters of the Baptist Health Foundation.
Line-item Appropriation Transparency Act; revise conditions by which a state agency may provide pass-through funding.
Emergency procurements; revise certain provisions relating to.
Internal audits; revise requirements for universities, community or junior colleges and certain state agencies.
Charter schools; amend certain provisions of law relating to.
Cosmetology Board and State Personnel Board; revise certain provisions of.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Southaven in paying costs of traffic signal installation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Critical Race Theory; prohibit.
Department of Public Safety; revise salaries of officers.
Voyeurism; revise sentencing.
Human trafficking; create civil cause of action for engaging in or benefitting from.
Educational Facilities Revolving Loan Fund Program; create for purpose of improving educational facilities.
City of Southaven; extend repeal date on restaurant tax.
Nonemergency medical transportation providers; require permit and set certain standards related to such service.
City of Horn Lake; extend the repeal date on the tax on hotel and motel room rentals.
Appropriation; Audit, Department of.
Appropriation; Banking and Consumer Finance, Department of.
Appropriation; Finance and Administration, Department of.
Appropriation; Governor's Office and Mansion.
Appropriation; Information Technology Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Development Authority, Mississippi.
Appropriation; Gulf Coast Restoration Funds to the Mississippi Development Authority.
Appropriation; Personnel Board.
Appropriation; Secretary of State.
Appropriation; Treasurer's Office.
Appropriation; Debt Service-Gen. Obli.
Marshall County; authorize contributions to Byhalia Area Arts Council.
City of Hernando; authorize election for restaurant tax to fund capital improvements related to parks and recreation.
Passed the Senate · 13
School board members; increase pay based on enrollment.
Sentence suspension; prohibit for crimes involving the exploitation of children.
Nationally certified school employees; delete caps on nurses & speech pathologists, add athletic trainers for salary supplements.
Teachers' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary.
Bow hunting; establish a three-day season the last weekend between September 10th and 20th for legal bucks.
Third-grade reading assessment for 2021-2022 school year; allow students who fail to be promoted to fourth grade with remediation.
RegionSmart Development Interstate Compact between Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee; ratify.
Law Enforcement Officers Death Benefits Trust Fund; include presumption of eligibility for officers with COVID-19.
Sheriffs; increase annual salaries of.
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of beer.
Appropriation; Department of Tourism.
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.
In committee · 5
Vaccines; prevent entities that receive state funding from requiring individuals to receive COVID vaccine.
University of Mississippi Medical Center; create joint committee to study the organization of.
State General Fund; FY2023 approp. to Marshall County for Red Banks Road Improvement Project.
State General Fund; FY2023 approp. to Marshall County for Byhalia Railroad Bridge Project.
Eminent domain; codify constitutional amendment.