Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, Senate.
Chuck Younger
Sponsored
Became law2
Laws that provide for camps for 4-H Club and that provide for the maintenance of herds at state institutions; repeal.
Mississippi Healthy Food Families Program; create.
Passed the Senate2
"Mississippi Grain Producer Indemnity Act"; enact.
Mississippi grain warehouse and grain dealers licensure law; revise and combine into grain handler license.
In committee7
Sales tax; require Department of Revenue certificate for commercial farmers to receive 1.5% sales tax rate.
PERS; allow water authorities and MS Rural Water Association to join.
State General Fund; FY 2023 appropriation to Dept. of Agriculture & Commerce to implement the Farms and Families Program.
Required local revenue in support of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program; revise computation of fee in lieu of taxes.
Firearms; criminalize discharge of within limits of or into municipality.
Mississippi Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act; create.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Columbus Redevelopment Authority in paying costs of Columbus Revitalization Project.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
2022 First Extraordinary Session · Triple Crown Project Fund; create.
2022 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; additional to the Mississippi Development Authority for certain projects.
Honey; revise definition of for purposes of labeling requirements enforced by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture.
MS Real Estate Commission; require to establish program using administrative hearing officers.
Critical Race Theory; prohibit.
Department of Public Safety; revise salaries of officers.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; authorize for 2021 National Championship Bulldogs.
Human trafficking; create civil cause of action for engaging in or benefitting from.
Volunteer firefighters; allow local governments to pay certain expenses for injury, illness and insurance.
State employees; provide the terms and conditions for state employees to engage in telework.
Counties; delete the duty of the clerk of the board of supervisors to report to the grand jury.
Passed the Senate · 17
Travel Insurance Act of 2022; create.
Recipients of Medicaid; extend postpartum coverage up to 12 months.
School board members; increase pay based on enrollment.
Arrest warrants; authorize electronic signatures.
Sentence suspension; prohibit for crimes involving the exploitation of children.
Advanced recycling; decrease plastic waste.
Child support; create presumption that support continues past the age of majority for a disabled child.
Teachers' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary.
Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund; create.
Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks; set terms of office.
Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks; set term of executive director and create Division of Parks and Recreation.
Bow hunting; establish a three-day season the last weekend between September 10th and 20th for legal bucks.
Law Enforcement Officers Death Benefits Trust Fund; include presumption of eligibility for officers with COVID-19.
Legal service contracts; clarify exemption from Public Procurement Review Board.
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of beer.
Income tax; authorize credit for certain expenditures for railroad reconstruction or replacement or new rail infrastructure.
Capital Expense Funds; FY2023 appropriation to MDOT for the Emergency Road and Bridge Repair Fund.
Out of committee · 3
Pecan Harvesting Law; revise penalties for violating.
Eminent domain; codify constitutional amendment.
Board of Cosmetology and Barbering; create, and abolish Board of Barber Examiners.
In committee · 18
Sales tax; exempt sales of feminine hygiene products.
Department of Corrections; create the Division of Parole to perform the administrative and fiscal functions of the Parole Board.
College of Veterinary Medicine; admissions requirements.
Hunting on streets and railroads; clarify prohibition on.
Wildlife; clarify that a conservation officer must have probable cause to conduct a search without a warrant.
All-terrain vehicles and recreational off-highway vehicles; allow tagging for operation on certain roads.
Eminent domain; codify constitutional amendment.
Elections; public official's qualification as candidate deemed resignation of current office.
State universities; require to develop mechanism for compiling data on state-funded projects and submit annual report.
Vaccines; prevent entities that receive state funding from requiring individuals to receive COVID vaccine.
Line-item Appropriation Transparency Act; revise conditions by which a state agency may provide pass-through funding.
Emergency procurements; revise certain provisions relating to.
Internal audits; revise requirements for universities, community or junior colleges and certain state agencies.
Charter schools; amend certain provisions of law relating to.
Cosmetology Board and State Personnel Board; revise certain provisions of.
State General Funds; FY2023 approp. to State Aid Road Fund to reimburse for monies expended to counties due to HB 779 (2019).
State General Fund; FY2023 appropriation to Emergency Road and Bridge Repair Fund to be utilized by MDOT.
Eminent domain; codify constitutional amendment.