Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, Senate.
Brice Wiggins
Sponsored
Became law6
Derelict vessels; provide certain requirements for the removal of.
DHS Fraud Investigation Unit; require to report certain suspected civil or criminal violations to the State Auditor.
Landlord-tenant law; revise provisions of to create procedures and protection for evictions.
Counties; delete the duty of the clerk of the board of supervisors to report to the grand jury.
Jackson County; authorize contributions to Friends of Arts, Culture and Education (F.A.C.E.).
Jackson County; authorize contributions to Junior Auxiliary of Pascagoula-Moss Point.
Passed the Senate5
Professional Engineers & Surveyors Licensing Board; remove provision requiring Governor to make appointments from nominees.
Special Care Facility for Paroled Inmates; authorize parole for medically frail inmates, licensure and Medicaid reimbursement.
Mississippi Equal Pay Act; enact.
Mississippi Domestic Law Task Force; reconstitute.
Divorce; authorize where marriage is irretrievably broken.
Out of committee1
DNA samples; collected from person arrested for any felony and provide for destruction of samples only upon expungement request.
In committee18
District attorney criminal investigators; revise salary of.
School curriculum; require that schools teach civics and government before completion of twelfth grade.
Officers of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics; revise salaries.
Statewide county court system; create.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; change recipient of additional fee for breast cancer awareness tag.
Child support; prohibit standard amount for imputation of income in lieu of fact-gathering.
Mississippi Statutory Thresholds for Settlements Involving Minors Law; create.
Child support; administratively suspend obligations for incarcerated individuals.
State Board of Medical Licensure; revise organization and membership of board.
COVID Vaccine; create religious exemption to mandates and prohibit certain discrimination related thereto.
First Responder Appreciation and Recruitment Act; create.
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of "qualified resort area" under the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
State Intervention Courts Advisory Committee; require to promulgate rules to create funding formula for intervention courts.
Vaccines; provide civil remedy for employees against corporations that enforce vaccine mandates.
Law Enforcement and Firefighters Death Benefits Act of 2022; create.
State Board of Medical Licensure; revise certain provisions relating to licensure.
Regional commissions for facilities for individuals with mental illness; revise commission members.
State General Fund; FY2022 appropriation for outside counsel in MIRA et al. v. Michael Watson et al.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Critical Race Theory; prohibit.
Department of Public Safety; revise salaries of officers.
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.
Appropriation; Gulf Coast Restoration Funds to the Mississippi Development Authority.
Passed the Senate · 6
Buddy's Law; order psychiatric evaluations for children adjudicated delinquent for abuse of a domesticated dog or cat.
Teachers' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary.
Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund; create.
CDLs; treat certain moving violations as regular license holders.
Law Enforcement Officers Death Benefits Trust Fund; include presumption of eligibility for officers with COVID-19.
Sheriffs; increase annual salaries of.
In committee · 4
Anatomical gifts; prohibit discrimination against recipient based on disability.
Vaccines; prevent entities that receive state funding from requiring individuals to receive COVID vaccine.
"Mississippi Coastal Master Plan Act of 2022"; enact.
Eminent domain; codify constitutional amendment.