Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, Senate.
Sollie B. Norwood
Sponsored
In committee26
Compulsory school attendance law; require of kindergarten-age children.
Supplementary state food stamp program for elderly recipients; create and fund.
Personal care homes; require licensure and regulations of those providing living arrangements for one or more persons.
Law enforcement pursuits; require municipalities and counties to develop policies regarding.
Expungement; consolidate statutes concerning.
Grocery items; prohibit cost-plus pricing without public notice.
Responsible Firearm Purchasing Act; enact.
Expunction and reenfranchisment; revise procedure for requesting.
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.
Charter school funding; revise funding formula.
Corporal punishment; prohibit administration of in public and charter schools for disciplinary matters.
Cyberstalking; authorize injunction when criminal charges filed.
Grandparents; authorize payment of support for assuming primary care of grandchildren, create tax credit for.
Legislature; allow PERS retirees to receive retirement allowance while serving as a member of.
PERS; reduce vesting period from 8 years to 4.
Retired teachers; allow to draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers subject to certain conditions.
Open meetings; revise accessibility to information on meeting times, agendas and minutes.
Study Committee; authorize to study police pursuits.
Charter schools; revoke charter if school remains "D" or "F" rated for longer than two consecutive years.
Jackson State University; transfer funds for new, multipurpose stadium.
Seventh Circuit Court District; authorize additional judges and legal assistants for.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Hinds County for equipment for sheriff's department.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to DFA for the 2024 IHL Capital Improvements Fund.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to JSU for campus safety.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Boys and Girls Club for replacing roof.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Mississippi Prior Authorization Reform Act; enact.
Foster care children; allow free access to museums and state parks, allow free transcripts from colleges and junior colleges.
Sheriffs; revise cap on annual salary supplement.
Mississippi Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Act and the Mississippi Uniform Agents Act; revise provisions of.
Certified Academic Language Therapists; allow to help instruct students with dyslexia in schools.
Nonprofit agricultural membership organization; authorize to issue health insurance and exempt from insurance regulation.
Appropriation; Ethics Commission.
Appropriation; Judicial Performance Commission.
Appropriation; Public Safety, Department of.
Appropriation; Architecture, Board of.
Appropriation; Funeral Services Board.
Appropriation; Geologists, Board of Registered Professional.
Appropriation; Massage Therapy, Board of.
Appropriation; Motor Vehicle Commission.
Appropriation; Counselors, Board of Examiners for Licensed Professional.
Appropriation; Accountancy, Board of Public.
Appropriation; Contractors, Board of.
Appropriation; Veterinary Examiners, Board of.
Passed the Senate · 8
Missing or unidentified persons; provide procedures regarding investigation of.
MAEP; revise funding formula.
Assistant teachers; revise certain licensure requirements.
MS Critical Teacher Shortage Act of 1998; extend repealer on.
Department of Education; to require to study and develop guidance on technology, nutrition and transportation.
State subject area tests and accountability standards; replace with college prep test and revise provisions.
Charter schools; set certain school accreditation rating requirements for renewal of charter.
Failing schools and districts of transformation; revise certain provisions related thereto.
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Medicaid; expand eligibility to include individuals entitled to benefits under federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Department of Human Services; require to transfer at least 30% of TANF block grant to Child Care and Development Fund.
Legal holidays; remove Confederate Memorial Day and designate June 19 as Juneteenth Freedom Day.
National Statuary Hall Selection Commission; create for recommending two new Mississippi statues at U.S. Capitol.
State employee salaries; direct State Personnel Board to implement across-the-board increase.
Jackson State University; provide for the construction of a six hundred room student housing project.
Suffrage; restore to Edward Carter, Sr.
The CROWN Act; create to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles in workplace and schools.
Applicants for TANF benefits; repeal section that requires drug testing as condition of eligibility.
Firearms; criminalize discharge of within limits of or into municipality.
Warrantless search; odor of marijuana insufficient to provide probable cause for.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Alcorn State University for STEM-related programs.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Alcorn State University to upgrade roadways and sidewalks.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Claiborne County for repairs and improvements to historical structures in the county.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Alcorn State University to strengthen support of poultry science programs.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Alcorn State University to support animal science research and extension programs.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Alcorn Agriculture Research and Extension for certain capital projects.
Deficit Prevention Act; amend additional deficit or supplemental appropriation request procedure.
Income tax; provide credit for taxpayers claiming federal Earned Income Tax Credit.
Child care services; provide eligibility for certain persons under the Child Care Payment Program (CCPP).
Appropriation; FY2025 to IHL for STEM related programs at Alcorn State University.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Claiborne County for renovation of county library.
Cosmetology and barbers; merge with changes requested from boards.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to JSU for design, development and construction of student housing.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Hinds County for repair and renovation of the Circuit Court courthouse.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Jackson Revival Center's Little Ambassadors Developmental Learning Center.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Hinds County to maintain and staff a public defender's office.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to JSU for redesigning and renovating McAllister- Whiteside Hall.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to City of Jackson for infrastructure projects in Ward 4.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Hinds County for infrastructure projects in the Town of Utica.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to JSU for redesigning and renovating Rose E. McCoy Auditorium.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Mississippi Symphony Orchestra to expand art education statewide.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to City of Jackson for Thalia Mara renovations and improvements to ensure ADA compliance.
General Fund; FY2025 appropriation to Jackson International Airport for certain infrastructure projects.