Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, Senate.
Nicole Boyd
Sponsored
Became law6
Cardiac emergency response plans; require schools to implement and provide procedures and certain immunity related thereto.
Mississippi Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Act and the Mississippi Uniform Agents Act; revise provisions of.
Bonds; clarify municipalities and counties may issue serial and single term.
Mississippi K-12 and Postsecondary Mental Health Task Force; create and provide membership and duties.
Rural Physicians Scholarship Program and Rural Dentists Scholarship Program; revise certain provisions of.
Lafayette County; authorize to provide funding to Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation.
Passed the Senate6
Mississippi Resident Tuition Assistance and Promise Grant Program; create to provide financial assistance to students.
University System Efficiency Task Force; create to examine the efficiency of the state public university system.
University of Mississippi; authorize to enter long-term lease with approval of I.H.L.
Community mental health centers; rename and require certain oversight measures by Department of Mental Health.
Community health workers; revise provisions of.
Nicotine vapor device directory; require manufacturers to provide certification, set penalties and other provisions.
Out of committee2
Early Intervention Task Force; reconstitute and set membership and responsibilities.
HELP Grant; revise certain provisions related thereto.
In committee21
School emergency response mapping data program; establish.
Mississippi University Research Authority; revise membership.
Public schools; require staff training to assist with seizures.
Depression screening for birth mothers; require health care professionals to administer and health insurers to cover.
Sales tax; exempt sales of feminine hygiene products, baby formula and baby diapers.
Sales tax; exempt sales of baby formula and baby diapers.
Local governments; allow local governments and schools to publish notices on their websites in addition to newspapers.
Open Meetings Law for public bodies; require official meetings to be broadcast via video livestream applications, with exceptions.
Retired Teacher Return to Work Task Force; establish.
Compulsory School Attendance Law; define "child with a disability" for purposes of creating exemption from unexcused absence.
Habitually disruptive students; require to be evaluated for disability under IDEA after disruptive behavior.
William F. Winter and Jack Reed, Sr., Teacher Loan Repayment Program; revise certain provisions related thereto.
The Student Safe at School Act; enact to provide for certain notice requirements for school shooting drills.
Social media; set certain requirements against content depicting tobacco or nicotine for minors.
Mississippi Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit Scholarship Program; increase eligibility and revise provisions related thereto.
Mississippi State Employee Maternity Leave Act; enact to provide six weeks of paid leave to certain employees.
Circuit court clerks; increase compensation in a county with a county court.
Cybersecurity incident liability; provide limitation on liability for certain entities that adopt cybersecurity standards.
Lunancy; remove all references in statute.
Certificate of need; delete requirement to obtain CON for psychiatric services, mental health and renal disease facilities.
Preschool and prekindergarten tax credit; expand for contributions to programs serving three-year-old children.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Mississippi Prior Authorization Reform Act; enact.
Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council; create at UMMC.
Foster care children; allow free access to museums and state parks, allow free transcripts from colleges and junior colleges.
Clinic building at 1308 Belk Boulevard; transfer to Mississippi Department of Public Safety.
Sheriffs; revise cap on annual salary supplement.
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.
Highways; dedicate a section of Highway 8 to William Forrest Winter.
Certified Academic Language Therapists; allow to help instruct students with dyslexia in schools.
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.
Medical Cannabis Research Advisory Board; enact and create the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Research Program.
Tobacco excise tax; provide rate for heated tobacco products.
Passed the Senate · 8
Adoption petitions; clarify that attached certificate may be executed by any physician.
Child support; create presumption that support continues past the age of majority for a disabled child.
Defending Affordable Prescription Drug Costs Act; enact to prohibit discriminating against 340B drug discount program entities.
Missing or unidentified persons; provide procedures regarding investigation of.
Divorce; authorize a court to grant when it is determined that a marriage is irretrievably broken.
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.
In committee · 8
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).
Ballot initiative measure process; revise the statutory provisions of.
Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act; enact.
Real estate; amend property condition disclosure statement liability.
Dr. Elton Mac Huddleston Rural Veterinarian Scholarship Program; establish.
Giglio letter; require prosecutors to give law enforcement officers an opportunity to be heard before sending.
Mississippi Organized Retail Theft Crime Prevention Act; enact.