Bills in the 2010 Regular Session, Senate.
Hob Bryan
Sponsored
Became law4
Smoking; prohibit at public venues for youth sports events.
Joint Legislative Study Committee on mental health system; continue authority of.
Mental health; modernize terminology used to refer to persons with mental retardation.
Reenacted State Department of Health and State Board of Health; change effective date on bill.
Passed the Senate1
Mental commitment; revise 72-hour hold procedures and authorize Crisis Intervention Teams.
Out of committee1
Interagency Coordinating Council for Children and Youth (ICCCY); define responsibilities and delete repealer.
In committee7
Uniform Emergency Volunteer Healthcare Practitioners Act; enact.
Nursing home administrator licensure law; prescribe qualifications and amend complaint procedure.
Health professional students receiving SREB scholarships; IHL shall not impose certain conditions.
Health Care Trust Fund and Health Care Expendable Fund; abolish and transfer assets to the State General Fund.
Health Information Technology Act; enact.
Mentally ill; may not be held in jail pending commitment.
CON; issue to Alexander Milne Home for Women, Inc., for ICF-MR beds in Laurel.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Mississippi Public Health Laboratory; name for Dr. Ed Thompson.
Armed Forces Absentee Voting Law; make changes to comply with federal law.
Memorial Highway; designate certain segment of MS Highway 23 in Itawamba County as the "Tammy Wynette Memorial Highway."
In committee · 3
Appropriation; State Department of Education; national board certification, additional for FY2010.
Appropriation; district attorneys; staff, chancellor and circuit judges; additional for FY2010.
Income tax; authorize job tax credit for new cut and sew jobs in the upholstered household furniture manufacturing industry.