Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, Senate.
Rita Potts Parks
Sponsored
Became law3
Mississippi Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act; allow athletes to be compensated for name, image and likeness.
Certificate of title; allow application without usual documents for vehicles at least 30 years old on oath of ownership.
City of Baldwyn; authorize to expand and operate natural gas distribution system to serve certain areas of Tippah County.
Out of committee2
Community colleges; board of trustees approve policies for out-of-state tuition waiver.
Step Ahead Program; create standardized dual enrollment program.
In committee5
State institutions of higher learning; allow income-sharing agreements between students and institutions.
Motorcycle/ATV Trauma Care Fee; exclude sales of motorcycles and ATVs to out-of-state residents.
Retirement; persons convicted of certain felonies shall forfeit benefits from PERS, SLRP and MHSPRS.
Graduate Nursing Loan Repayment Program; create to provide student loan repayment to nurse educators.
2021 Mississippi Education Task Force; create to review state regulations and accountability system.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
MAEP; Department of Education required to hold harmless school district from calculating 2020-2021 average daily attendance.
Mississippi Dementia Care Program, Food Bank Pilot Programming; create.
Teacher license; allow reciprocity if teacher possesses standard license from other state and passes background check.
Athletics; provide that schools designate teams by biological sex.
Transportation; revise provisions relating to motor carrier enforcement, harvest permits, and funding.
Appropriation; IHL - general support.
Appropriation; IHL - Subsidiary programs.
Appropriation; IHL - Alcorn State - Agricultural Research, Extension and Land-Grant programs.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Cooperative Extension Service.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Forest and Wildlife Research Center.
Appropriation; IHL - Mississippi State University - Veterinary Medicine, College of.
Appropriation; IHL - Student Financial Aid.
Appropriation; IHL - University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of - State Aid Road Construction, Office of.
Appropriation; Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority.
Passed the Senate · 3
Teachers' salaries; provide for increase.
Firearms; prohibit local governments and state agencies from restricting possession.
Autopsies; provide for confidentiality of photographs and recordings of.