Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, Senate.
Hillman Terome Frazier
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Mississippi Department of Labor and Commissioner of Labor; establish.
Unemployment compensation benefits; eliminate one-week waiting period for eligibility.
MS Affordable Housing Trust Fund; MS Home Corporation to establish and manage upon advice of oversight board.
In committee40
Teachers' salaries; increase next 5 years and determine "living wage" for assistant teachers.
Personal care homes; create program of Medicaid assistance payments for.
Workers' compensation; injured employee may select specialists who provide type of treatment prescribed.
Retired teachers; may draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if they have 25 years of creditable service.
School guidance counselors; provide state funds for.
Voter; define all convicted felons as not qualified.
School bonds; require 55% vote to pass.
School cafeteria workers; provide state-funded insurance on a phased-in basis.
Office of Occupational Safety and Health; State Department of Health shall establish.
Annual leave for teachers; allow additional accumulation of personal leave.
Birthday cutoff date for 5- and 6-year-old enrollment in public kindergarten or first grade; move to January 1.
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act; require Judicial College to train judges, DAs & law enforcement officers.
Agreement between child development tech programs at the community colleges and the universities; require.
School district sixteenth section principal fund; authorize local school boards to expend certain amount.
Human Relations Commission; establish.
Legislature; shall not meet on General Robert E. Lee/Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.
School districts provide an annual report of teacher vacancies to the SBE and the Legislature; require.
E-verification of employee work eligibility status; repeal law.
Interpreters fund; create and place under management of Administrative Office of Courts.
Mississippi Community College Transfer Scholarship Fund; create.
Student loans; provide graduate degree teacher incentive loans to applicants agreeing to teach in public schools or universities.
Tuition-free attendance at any state IHL or comm. college; authorize for students with at least 3.0 GPA regardless of immigration status.
Income tax; provide credit for out-of-pocket classroom supply expenditures made by public schoolteachers.
Consumer collection agencies; require registration and prohibit certain acts.
Donated leave; return unused leave pursuant to school board policy.
Unused sick leave earned by teachers; authorize one-time payment by school district.
Study selection and governance structures of local school boards; create task force.
Sales tax; revise definition of "business" to exclude food sales paid by certain declining balance debit cards.
State Workforce Investment Board; make report to the Legislature on the economic contributions of immigrants.
Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP); create.
Retirement; retirees may be reemployed for 195 days per fiscal year.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of certain food for human consumption.
Workers' compensation; require workplace medical services and transportation for injured employees.
School district; elect members of all municipal school boards beginning in 2013.
Accumulated personal leave; authorize transfer between state and county agencies.
Flexible office hours for certain state agencies; authorize.
Public schools; required to offer a brief period of quiet reflection each morning.
Bicycle safety; require helmets when riding on public roads.
Mississippi Interagency Council on Homelessness; establish.
Bonds; authorize for the replacement of Dansby Hall at Jackson State University.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Retirement; authorize counties to pay PERS employer contributions on net fee income of constables.
Public officers and employees; revise punishment for embezzlement and restrict government hiring of felons.
Appropriation; Chiropractic Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Dental Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Funeral Services Board.
Appropriation; Massage Therapy, Board of.
Appropriation; Pharmacy, Board of.
Appropriation; Counselors, Board of Examiners for Licensed Professional.
Appropriation; Veterinary Examiners, Board of.
Passed the Senate · 2
Expunction; provide procedure for certain felonies of persons under 21 years of age at the time of conviction.
State agency property; authorize DFA as central leasing agent for all state agencies.
Out of committee · 1
Growth and Prosperity Act; certain businesses in high poverty census tracts are eligible.
In committee · 3
Public construction; IHL Board shall manage certain state-funded construction projects for campus homes for university presidents.
Teacher salaries funded under the MAEP; provide for 5% across the board increase.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson in making improvements to the Woodrow Wilson Avenue Bridge.