Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, Senate.
Josh Harkins
Sponsored
Became law11
State Auditor; authorize to examine tax returns necessary for auditing certain federal benefits.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; authorize for various purposes.
Fees; authorize Department of Revenue to charge and place in special fund to defray costs of shipping alcoholic beverages.
Sales Tax Taxation of Construction-Related Activities Study Committee; create.
County sheriffs; revise recordkeeping requirements for meals served to prisoners.
Mississippi Liquor Distribution Corporation; create study committee on.
Right-to-Try Act; revise definitions to include traumatic injury and adult autologous mesenchymal stem cell.
Tourism Project Incentive Program; extend deadline on MDA's authority to approve participants.
Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program; revise comprehensive investment plan and investment options for.
Ad valorem taxes; extend deadline for free port warehouses to submit required inventory to tax assessor due to COVID-19.
Uniform Controlled Substances Act; automatically schedule any federally-scheduled, COVID-19 drug.
Vetoed1
Higher Education Legislative Plan; align core curriculum with the required IHL College Preparatory Curriculum.
Passed the Senate18
Capitol mail carrier and post office; repeal certain provisions relating to.
Alcohol; revise certain provisions regarding authority of Department of Revenue to dispose of seized alcohol.
Public officials and employees; allow Department of Revenue appraisers to receive same pay increases as county tax assessors.
Ad valorem tax; remove reverter on provision waiving penalty and interest when county inadvertently extended exemption.
Taxation; amend code sections to make interest rates consistent with other tax statutes.
Motor vehicles; remove requirement for apportioned vehicles to have decal with expiration month and year on license tag.
Taxation; extend exemptions and credits for certain equipment used in the deployment of broadband technologies.
Taxation; allow denial of permit to engage in business as a different legal entity until previous taxes have been paid.
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of "qualified resort area" to include land owned by a certain state institution of higher learning.
Motor vehicle title; change vehicle age from 10 to 20 years for odometer disclosure exemption to conform with federal mandate.
Oil and gas distributors; allow bonds to exceed limit in certain instances, remove class distinctions and require e-filing.
Ad valorem tax; revise certain provisions relating to assessment of public service corporations.
Children's Promise Act; remove reverter and extend repealer on tax credits, and increase certain limits on credits authorized.
Bonds; authorize issuance for various purposes.
Taxation; allow Commissioner of Revenue to reduce tax based on additional information after order of Board of Tax Appeals.
MS Conveyance Safety Act; exempt conveyances that serve only two adjacent floors from annual inspection requirement.
Board of supervisors; authorize to pay employees every two weeks.
Mississippi Employer-Assisted Housing Teacher Program; revise.
Out of committee4
Mississippi Development Authority; exempt from Personnel Board procedures for 2 years and bring forward code sections.
Taxation; revise penalty for failure to render schedules of property to Department of Revenue for tax assessment purposes.
Mississippi Marketplace Facilitator Act of 2020; create.
Fueling Station Tax Credit Act; create.
In committee14
Use tax; revise certain provisions regarding distribution of funds to municipalities for road and bridge improvements.
The Seizure Safe Schools Act; enact.
Motor vehicle title; require permanent branding after insurance company's payment of total loss claim.
Reverse auctions; authorize local governments/agencies to solicit bids by a method other than reverse auction under certain.
County prosecuting attorney; revise authorization to present matters to the grand jury.
Radar speed detection equipment; allow sheriffs to use in unincorporated areas of county and not on interstate highways.
Urine; create the crime of selling or tampering with urine.
Taxation; add gross weight category for carriers of property with additional privilege tax for new category.
Peer-to-Peer Vehicle Sharing Program Act; enact.
Wholesale to Retail Accountability Program ("WRAP"); establish.
Alcoholic beverages; allow governing authorities of a certain municipality to designate property as qualified resort area.
Alcoholic beverages; allow municipalities that have established qualified resort areas to permit sale of.
Home inspectors; require background checks for licensure.
Rankin County; authorize board of supervisors to buy radar equipment for sheriff and deputies to use outside municipalities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Secretary of State's official seal; include the phrase "In God We Trust" at the bottom.
Equity in Distance Learning Act; enact.
The Mississippi County and Municipality Emergency Relief Program; establish.
Mississippi Back-to-Business Liability Assurance and Health Care Emergency Response Liability Protection Act; create.
Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Bd.-CARES Act.
Passed the Senate · 4
Teachers' salaries; provide for increase.
Veterans; create the Mississippi Veterans Honor Medal Program.
Law enforcement officers and firefighters; increase the death benefits payable to.
Local governmental entities and school districts; authorize grant of admin leave with pay in certain disasters or emergencies.
In committee · 5
Child Protection Services; require disclosure of reporter in cases of false abuse and neglect reports.
Emergency medical services; prohibit sole participation in nonemergency, interfacility transfers.
Hinds Community College District Board of Trustees; provide for selection of.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist in renovation of building for Hinds Community College/City of Pearl Workforce Training Center.
Bonds; authorize issuance for Phase II of construction of a new headquarters building for the Department of Public Safety.