Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
Sollie B. Norwood
Sponsored
In committee22
Grocery items; prohibit cost-plus pricing without public notice.
Expunction and reenfranchisment; revise procedure for requesting.
Expungement; consolidate statutes concerning.
Cyberstalking; authorize injunction when criminal charges filed.
Suffrage; provide for restoration upon completion of sentence and other conditions.
Qualifying to run for public office; prohibit use of post office box and require physical address of residence.
Responsible Firearm Purchasing Act; enact.
Law enforcement pursuits; require municipalities and counties to develop policies regarding.
Legislature; allow PERS retirees to receive retirement allowance while serving as a member of.
PERS; reduce vesting period from 8 years to 4.
Charter school funding; revise funding formula.
Corporal punishment; prohibit administration of in public and charter schools for disciplinary matters.
Compulsory school attendance law; require of kindergarten-age children.
Supplementary state food stamp program for elderly recipients; create and fund.
Retired teachers; allow to draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers subject to certain conditions.
Personal care homes; require licensure and regulations of those providing living arrangements for one or more persons.
Grandparents; authorize the payment of support for assuming primary care of grandchildren, create tax credit for.
Health insurance; Commissioner of Insurance must approve rate filings containing an increase in premiums.
Jackson State University; create program to construct new football stadium.
Open meetings; revise accessibility to information on meeting times, agenda and minutes.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Jackson Redevelopment Authority for the Farish Street redevelopment.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Jackson Redevelopment Authority for Union Station Transit Hub.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Deficit Prevention Act; require state agencies to notify certain officials when likelihood of a deficit exists.
Real property owned by school districts; allow to be sold for development.
Flood and drainage control districts; revise number of directors for certain municipalities.
Tourism; Mississippi Main Street Revitalization Grant Program.
"Secretary of State Eric Clark Coastal Preserve" and "Gollott Island/Godfather Point"; Department of Marine Resources designate.
Real Estate Commission; decrease fees charged by.
Homestead; provide full exemption for unremarried surviving spouse of U.S. military member killed on active duty or training.
Driver's license fees; waive for applicants in MDCPS custody.
Appropriation; Ethics Commission.
Appropriation; Judicial Performance Commission.
Appropriation; Architecture, Board of.
Appropriation; Gaming Commission.
Appropriation; Geologists, Board of Registered Professional.
Appropriation; Motor Vehicle Commission.
Appropriation; Accountancy, Board of Public.
Appropriation; Contractors, Board of.
Passed the Senate · 1
School attendance officers; revise to increase the minimum base salary.
Out of committee · 1
Pharmacy Benefit Manager; revise certain requirements of.
In committee · 24
Warrantless search; odor of marijuana insufficient to provide probable cause for.
Workers' compensation; increase maximum total recovery, remove permanent total disability compensation cap.
Medicaid; expand eligibility to include individuals entitled to benefits under federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Crown Act; enact to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles in workplace and schools.
Jackson State University; provide for the construction of a six hundred room student housing project.
Initiative measure; create procedures for qualified elector to propose amendment to the Mississippi Code of 1972.
State employee salaries; direct State Personnel Board to implement across-the-board increase.
Confederate Memorial Day; remove from list of legal holidays.
National Statuary Hall Selection Commission; create for recommending two new Mississippi statues at U.S. Capitol.
Sales tax; exempt sales of groceries.
Sales tax; exempt sales of groceries in August.
Department of Human Services; require to transfer at least 30% of TANF block grant to Child Care and Development Fund.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; revise provisions of and lower eligibility for certain scholarship programs.
Applicants for TANF benefits; repeal section that required drug testing as condition of eligibility.
Department of Human Services; create governing board.
Jackson Water Reimbursement Grant Program; establish.
Income tax; provide credit for taxpayers claiming federal Earned Income Tax Credit.
General Fund; FY2024 City of Jackson Water Reimbursement Grant Program.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Jackson Revival Center's Little Ambassadors Developmental Learning Center.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Brooks Williams Stewart Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9832 for infrastructure.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Jackson State University for the purpose of constructing student housing.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to JSU for upgrades to its water system.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Department of Health to assist rural public hospitals at high financial risk.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to be administered by Community Foundation of MS for rehab of the planetarium.