Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Orlando Paden
Sponsored
In committee30
Critical Teacher Shortage Area License; create alternative license to be issued for educators who teach in designated areas of.
Mississippi Benefit Corporation Act; create.
"Mississippi Promise Scholarship Act of 2019"; establish to provide tuition assistance for tuition-free community and junior college attendance.
Mississippi Delta Alternative Teacher Licensure Program; create to alleviate teacher shortage in Delta Region.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist the Delta Blues Museum with installation of permanent exhibits.
Assistant teachers; require school districts to notify of nonreemployment within 10 days after adopting budget.
Mississippi State Workforce Investment Board; expand membership to include a woman and require gender equity in certain workforces.
Equal pay certificate; require certain businesses to have before contracting above $100,000.00 with state agency or department.
Mississippi Department of Labor; create.
State song; designate "My Home Mississippi" as second official song.
Suffrage; restore to all upon meeting all terms and conditions of sentence.
Child care; DHS transfer to CCDF $40 million of unspent TANF funds from prior fiscal year.
State flag; create commission to select new design of from submissions by public universities and colleges.
Teachers' salary; provide for $4,000.00 increase over four years at $1,000.00/year beginning with the 2019-2020 term.
Teachers' salary; implement five-year phase in to increase to Southeastern average.
Women's Economic Security Act; create.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care law and under CHIP.
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of "hotel" under the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
Mississippi Eyes on Smiling Students Health Act; enact to require vision screening and oral health assessments for certain students.
Municipal public utilities commission; may be abolished by a majority vote of electors voting in a special election.
City of Clarksdale; public utilities commission may be abolished by majority vote of electors voting in special election.
Day and Temporary Labor Services Act; create.
Early voting; authorize.
Public school curriculum; require instruction in mental illness as part of Health Education.
Driver's license; direct Commission of Public Safety to develop and implement electronic format option.
Firearms licensed; require proof of mental health evaluation.
Law enforcement officers; requiring training on communicating with persons with autism spectrum disorder.
Commitment proceedings; expand types of professionals authorized to conduct screenings and evaluations in.
Coahoma County Reserve and Trust Fund; authorize trustees of fund to use certain amount of fund to supplement county general fund.
City of Clarksdale; authorize the levying of special ad valorem tax taxable property in city to fund certain capital improvements.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act; create.
Windstorm Underwriting Association; authorize to levy recoupable and nonrecoupable assessments.
Health insurance; revise mandatory policy provisions to penalize late payments of claims.
Felony abuse of a vulnerable person; expand crime to include the willful infliction of severe mental anguish.
Child abuse; require CPS to notify applicable military installation family adovacy program in certain cases.
Bonds; authorize issuance for construction of the Mississippi Center for Medically Fragile Children.
Criminal Justice Reform Act; create.
Tax exemptions; revise requirements that a business enterprise in the aerospace industry must meet to be eligible for.
Controlled substances; revise Schedules I, II, and V.
Vetoed · 1
Secure detention; raise minimum age for youth.
Passed the House · 6
Capitol Complex Improvement District; increase amount of short-term debt that DFA may incur to implement and administer projects.
Youth court; revise who may attend hearings and require to send certain monthly cumulative data to Administrative Office of Courts.
"Critical Needs Teacher Forgivable loan Program"; delete automatic repealer on and other applicable provisions.
Fresh Start Act of 2019; create.
Bonds; authorize issuance for construction of the Center for STEM Education and Advancement.
Bonds; authorize issuance improvements to certain state-owned emergency alert transmission towers.
Out of committee · 1
Rights of youth taken into custody for delinquent act, certain; require legal counsel be consulted before waiver of certain rights may occur.
In committee · 23
State song; designate as "Mississippi Beautiful."
Appropriation; IHL Board for additional funds for JSU, ASU and MVSU.
State holidays; remove Robert E. Lee's birthday and Confederate Memorial Day as legal holidays.
Right to vote; restore to people who committed nonviolent disqualifying crimes upon meeting certain requirements.
Long-term care facilities; require residents of certain to obtain a preneed contract within 6 months after admission.
Electric/hybrid vehicle tax; repeal sections of law authorizing.
Song; designate "Mississippi Beautiful" as a song for Mississippi, which may be sung by all Mississippians.
Minimum wage; establish at $10.10 per hour.
Spouses and children of first responders killed in the line of duty; provide scholarship for attendance at post secondary institution.
Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; revise certain provisions.
Bonds; create small municipalities security cameras and equipment grant program and authorize bonds to provide funds.
Charter schools; require MAEP funds to be transferred to student's home school district when student disenrolls.
Medicaid; seek waiver for plan to expand eligibility with regional care organizations, known as "One Mississippi".
Nonlicensed teachers; authorize school districts to employ certain number to fill core subject area positions.
Community schools; authorize school districts that provide services through the use of to receive additional 10% allocation under MAEP.
Bonds; create pilot program for grants to certain small municipalities for security cameras and equipment and authorize bonds to provide funds.
Income tax; provide a credit for taxpayers who claim a federal earned income tax credit.
Bonds; authorize issuance for improvements to the Jackson Public School District's Career Development Center.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University for renovating the Whitney Health and P.E. Complex or constructing a new academic convocation center.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University Agricultural Programs for renovation and repair of aquaculture facility.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University for making modifications to buildings to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University for design and planning of construction of new student union complex.
Appropriation; IHL for Alcorn State University for improving campus safety and security.