Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, Senate.
David Blount
Sponsored
Became law5
Mississippi Military Family Relief Fund; allow use when family resides in a Presidential Declared Disaster area.
Public Procurement Review Board; must publish an agency's request to lease nonstate owned property on DFA website.
General Laws, legislative journals and MS cases reporters; Secretary of State may reduce number distributed free of cost.
Nursing home administrators; extend repealer on licensure requirements for.
Regional and municipal airport authorities; revise powers and duties.
Passed the Senate8
Municipally owned waterworks; prohibit from charging higher rates to certain customers in another municipality.
Ad valorem taxes; authorize counties and municipalities to exempt vehicles of military personnel who receive eminent danger pay.
Curator of New Capitol Building; provide for employment by Board of Trustees of Archives and History.
Department of ITS; authorize to manage state data centers for cost-sharing services to all agencies.
Campaign finance reports; circuit and municipal clerks must forward copies of to Secretary of State within 10 days of receiving.
Department of Revenue; authorize Department of Finance and Administration to purchase property for DOR's headquarters.
Domestic violence; revise adjudication, punishment and registration of protection orders.
Tax-forfeited lands; Secretary of State may consider cost of cleanup when determining the price for the sale of.
Out of committee1
Robert E. Lee Building; authorize DFA to sell or lease.
In committee18
Professional association dues deduction by teachers; authorize.
Highways; add segments of certain roads within the corporate limits of the City of Jackson to the state highway system.
Armed Forces Absentee Voting Law; applications may be signed by electronic signature.
Law enforcement officers; provide minimum due process rights for municipal.
Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefit Trust Fund; increase funding for death benefits trust fund.
County medical examiners; increase salaries and fees paid to.
Sheriffs; increase salaries of.
Retirement; authorize counties to pay PERS employer contributions on net fee income of constables.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize for supporters of the MS Law Enforcement Officers' Association.
Drug forfeitures; allow constables to participate in seizure and distribution of assets.
Retirement; authorize counties to pay PERS employer contributions on net fee income of constables.
Physical therapists; extend repealer on certain provisions relating to licensing and discipline of.
Licensed psychologists; extend repealer on educational and experience qualifications.
Campaign finance reports; circuit and municipal clerks must forward reports filed with them to the Secretary of State within 10 days.
New Capitol Building; Archives and History employ a Curator of the Capitol to oversee, approve and monitor care of.
Motorcycle officer training; create program, fund and assessment in support of.
Municipal airport authorities; establish procedure to enforce aircraft liens.
Public records; fees charged for are restricted to actual costs.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Vulnerable person act; clarify abuse and neglect under.
Memorial highway; designate a certain portion of MS Highway 245 in Chickasaw County as the Carl J. "Jack" Gordon, Jr. Memorial Highway.
Armed Forces Absentee Voting Law; applications may be signed by electronic signature.
Dual enrollment-dual credit work skills certificate program in high school and community college; establish pilot program.
Appropriation; Judicial Performance Commission.
Appropriation; Ethics Commission.
Passed the Senate · 3
Local school superintendents; all appointed after January 1, 2016.
Business improvement districts; extend the period for which they are authorized and revise certain vote requirements.
Public Records Act; public access will not be diminished because records are stored in certain manner/revise civil penalty.
In committee · 2
Bonds; authorize to assist in the establishment of the GRAMMY Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to assist Hinds County in construction of the Byram-Clinton Parkway Project.