Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, Senate.
Brice Wiggins
Sponsored
Became law6
Bad Faith Assertions of Patent Infringement; extend repealer on.
Temporary license for social workers; authorize to practice in nonprofit facilities.
Department of Public Safety; authorize contract with counties for custody of certain offenders.
Task Force; establish to study domestic law matters.
City of Pascagoula; extend the repeal date on tourism tax authorized to be levied on prepared food sold at restaurants.
Jackson County and the City of Pascagoula; extend repealer on LaPointe-Krebs Foundation, Inc.
Passed the Senate6
Child advocacy centers; immunity from civil liability.
Cemetery owners; authorize to disinter dead human remains for reinterment, reburial or delivery to a carrier for transportation.
Special Care Facility for Paroled Inmates; authorize parole for medically frail inmates, licensure and Medicaid reimbursement.
Parole and earned release; criminalize absconding.
Open Meetings Law; allow executive sessions for certain discussions by public hospital boards.
Early Learning Collaborative Act of 2013; prescribe standards and benchmarks.
Out of committee2
Statewide county court system; create.
Early Learning Collaborative Act of 2013; revise minimum funding levels.
In committee21
State flag; adopt as the official state flag the design approved by 72% of the voters in the statewide special election.
Rapid DNA Task Force; establish within the Department of Public Safety.
DNA samples; collected from person arrested for any felony and provide for destruction of samples only upon expungement request.
School boards; require policy that allows for corporal punishment opt in of students annually.
County prosecuting attorney; revise annual salary of for Jackson County.
District attorney criminal investigators; revise salary of.
Sheriffs; revise annual salary for counties with population of more than 100,000.
Assistant district attorneys; revise number authorized.
"Mississippi Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act of 2021"; enact.
Mississippi correctional system; establish Department of Reentry and Supervision and Office of Corrections Ombudsman.
Tanning facilities; prohibit use by anyone under 18 years of age.
Health insurance policies; prohibit step therapy requirements for certain prescription drugs to treat stage-four cancer.
County attorneys; authorize sanction of for failure to appear in justice court.
Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a District of Innovation.
Civil immunity; provide to participants of child-abuse investigations, evaluations or judicial proceedings.
School curriculum; require that schools teach civics and government before completion of twelfth grade.
Health care practitioner; require identification during all patient encounters.
Institutions of higher education; protect lawful expression and create cause of action for violation of free speech.
Harassment in institutions of higher education; provide cause of action for discriminatory harassment.
Gulf Coast Restoration Funds; FY2022 appropriation to City of Pascagoula for downtown economic development.
Bonds; authorize to assist Pascagoula Redevelopment Authority attain qualified workforce through economic develpoment.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
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.
"Mississippi Earned Parole Eligibility Act"; enact.
Appropriation; Corrections, Department of.
Appropriation; Public Safety, Department of.
Appropriation; Employment Security, Department of.
Appropriation; Revenue, Department of.
Appropriation; Tax Appeals Board.
Appropriation; Workers' Compensation Commission.
Passed the Senate · 2
Teachers' salaries; provide for increase.
Autopsies; provide for confidentiality of photographs and recordings of.
In committee · 3
Fleeing or eluding a law enforcement officer; revise offense of.
Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council; establish.
Bonds; authorize issuance for Mississippi Ports Improvement Fund.