Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, Senate.
Angela Burks Hill
Sponsored
Became law3
Literacy-Based Promotion Act; establish in public schools to achieve grade-level reading by end of 3rd Grade.
Cottage food operations; exempt from certain licensing requirements.
Women's Health Defense Act of 2013; create.
Passed the Senate2
MS Wireless Communication Commission; revise authority regarding local government entities.
Sales tax; limit liability if previous Department of Revenue audit determined taxpayer was in compliance with the law.
In committee16
Homeschool and nonpublic school students; authorize participation in extracurricular activities in public schools.
Time of payment of teacher/administrator salaries; school districts making semimonthly payments in 2011-2012 may continue.
Elected county superintendent of education; may be a resident of any county in the State of Mississippi.
Littering; revise offense of.
Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program; increase maximum number of students eligible to 20.
Parents who send children to private school or homeschool; provide state income tax deduction for.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize for the Pearl River County School District.
MS Gulf Coast Region Utility Act; revise powers and duties of the county utility authorities.
Columbia Training School; DFA may transfer property north of HWY 44 to the Marion County Board of Supervisors.
Columbia Training School property; revise portion that DFA may transfer to the Marion County Board of Supervisors.
Health Care Freedom Of Choice Act; enact.
Firearm Protection Act; create.
County utility authorities; no permit required for use of certain private water wells.
Columbia Training School; ratify 2011 conveyance of industrial property by DHS.
Comprehensive Health Insurance Risk Pool Association; revise powers and duties of.
Mississippi Firearms Freedom Act; create.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Youth court records; adult can obtain own.
Professional licenses; certain military-trained applicants and military spouses shall receive by reciprocity when in Mississippi.
Public officers and employees; revise punishment for embezzlement and restrict government hiring of felons.
"Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act of 2013"; enact.
Mississippi Education Works Program; enact education reforms.
Licensed vessel pilots; limit liability of pilots and trainees.
Appropriation; Development Authority, Mississippi.
Appropriation; Gaming Commission.
Passed the Senate · 3
Weapons; clarify definition of "concealed" and revise gun-carry permit.
MDA; require annual report regarding tax credits, loans and grants awarded for certain economic development projects.
Severance tax; reduce for 30 months for oil and gas produced from and after 7/1/13 from horizontally drilled wells.
In committee · 9
Civil actions; property and casualty insurers have burden of proof for exclusions in "all perils" coverage policy.
Youth sports concussions and head injuries; provide procedures and education requirements.
Indefinite detention of citizens in the United States; prohibit MS National Guard from assisting federal agent.
Income tax; authorize establishment of catastrophe savings accounts and exempt contributions and distributions from tax.
Health care CON; issue to hospital in Harrison County for adult psych beds for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Health insurance exchange; Governor shall have sole authority to establish.
Public benefits; verify applicant's lawful presence in U.S.
Firearms; prohibit state cooperation with federal effort to ban.
Health insurance exchange; prohibit State of Mississippi from establishing.