Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Orlando Paden
Sponsored
Became law1
Coahoma County; authorize reserve and trust fund to be used to finance jail, fire station, bypass.
In committee24
Mississippi Benefit Corporation Act; create.
Mississippi Department of Labor; create.
Early voting; authorize.
Day and Temporary Labor Services Act; create.
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of hotel under the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist the Delta Blues Museum with installation of permanent exhibits.
"Mississippi Promise Scholarship Act of 2020"; establish to provide tuition assistance for tuition-free community and junior college attendance.
Assistant teachers; require school districts to notify of nonreemployment within 10 days after adopting budget.
Statute of limitations; remove for crimes against children.
State song; designate "My Home Mississippi" as second official song.
Mississippi Secure Choice Savings Program; establish.
Public school curriculum; require instruction in mental illness as part of Health Education.
School districts; require each school to have epinephrine auto-injectors and AEDs in every building and cafeteria.
Public universities and colleges; require to have epinephrine auto-injectors and AEDs in every building on campus.
Firearms licensed; require proof of mental health evaluation.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Delta Blues Museum's installation of permanent exhibits.
Driver's license; direct Commission of Public Safety to develop and implement electronic format option.
Suffrage; restore to all upon meeting all terms and conditions of sentence.
The Crown Act; create to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles in workplace and schools.
AEDs; require at public schools and state instiutions of higher learning and provide authority to lease.
School districts; require all schools to have epinephrine auto-injectors in every building and cafeteria.
Income tax; revise certain provisions to address investment in federally designated qualified opportunity zones.
Appropriation; Health Department to provide epi-pens and AEDs in IHLs, community colleges and schools.
Coahoma County; authorize contribution to But God Ministries.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Department of Revenue; authorize to revise individual income tax forms to allow taxpayer to designate two bank accounts for direct deposit.
"Mississippi Learn to Earn Act"; enact to authorize the earning of graduation credit through apprenticeships and other alternative courses.
DPS division of driver services; make various revisions regarding.
Part-time law enforcement officers; revise salary threshold determination for deputy sheriffs and police officers.
Appropriations; DFA for tourism and nonprofit art museum recovery.
Mississippi Tourism Recovery Fund and Mississippi Nonprofit Art Museums Recovery Fund; create.
State Flag; revise with a commission and require words "In God We Trust."
Appropriation; MDE for Mississippi Broadband Availability Act purposes.
Appropriation; DFA for a cooperative and broadband provider grant program funds.
Vetoed · 1
Appropriation; several agencies for addressing the public health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Passed the House · 8
Gifted education; require school districts to provide for students in Grades 7 and 8.
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities.
"Trauma-Informed Discipline Practices Act; enact to establish procedures to assess and mediate effects of traumatic events in schools.
Student club funds; clarify use and accounting practices by school districts.
Teacher licensure; revise qualifications for candidates to enter an approved teacher education program.
Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a District of Innovation.
"Mississippi Hemp Cultivation Act"; enact to provide for regulation of hemp.
Career and technical education; revise curriculum, instructor license requirements and certain assessments.
Out of committee · 1
Mississippi Gospel Music Trail; authorize MDA Division of Tourism to establish program and historical markers for.
In committee · 24
Automatic voter registration; authorize for those who apply for the issuance, renewal or change of address of driver's license.
Mobile homes; give owner of one year to redeem the property after sold for taxes.
Elections; prohibit use of word "re-elect" unless for person who is current incumbent of the office sought.
Right to vote; restore automatically once a person has been released from the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Medicaid; seek waiver for plan to expand eligibility with regional care organizations, known as "One Mississippi."
Chancery clerk; require to remove social security numbers from land transfer deeds.
Medicaid; eligible pregnant women shall remain eligible for maternal care services for 12 months after end of pregnancy.
Voter rolls; prohibit purging names from Statewide Elections Management System 120 days or less before the date of any election.
Vocational and home economics; require curriculum for all middle, high and alternative school students.
School bus drivers; require to be first aid and CPR trained and certified.
Federal judges; authorize to solemnize marriage.
Child care facilities; require licensing agency to disclose names of persons filing complaints against.
Child Care Advisory Council; require child care providers to recommend names of persons to serve on.
Department of Health; limit any increase in fees by to not more than five percent.
Department of Human Services; require a board of directors to be created within.
Unemployment compensation; revise weekly benefit amount for.
State agencies; prohibit disclosure of identifying information received from program applicants.
State agencies; prohibit disclosure of identifying information received from program applicants.
Mississippi Day of Freedom and Abolishment of Slavery; declare February 7 as.
Optometry; State Board of Optometry shall define the practice of and not exclude certain procedures.
Early Learning Collaborative Act of 2013; revise funding and specify teaching standards.
Collegiate voters; require each public and private 4-year postsecondary institution to have an on-campus voting precinct.
Absentee voting; establish electronic application procedure for college students.
Appropriation; State Auditor for forensic audit of DHS's TANF expenditures during certain period.