Bills in the 2008 Regular Session, Senate.
David Jordan
Sponsored
Became law2
"Teach For America" grant program; establish to provide a national teacher corps program in the Mississippi Delta.
Memorial highways; designate a portion of MS Highway 12 in Holmes County as "Mallory-Davis Memorial Highway."
Passed the Senate1
City of Greenwood; extend the repeal date on the Greenwood Tourism Commission.
Out of committee2
Cultural tourism in the Delta; create initiatives.
Mississippi Department of Labor and Commissioner of Labor; establish.
In committee10
School employment procedures law; reduce probationary period for certified employees.
Delta Revitalization Zone; create and establish economic incentives.
Ammunition; require serial coding.
Delta Regional Housing Clearinghouse; create in regard to efforts to improve housing in Delta region.
Retired teachers; may draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if they have 25 years of creditable service.
Task force to report on incentives for teachers and administrators in the Delta to serve at-risk students; create.
Prekindergarten programs; require under-performing school districts in the Delta to implement.
Health education in public schools; to include medically and scientifically accurate information.
Sex education pilot program; SBE and SBH shall establish.
Bonds; authorize the issuance of g.o. bonds for the repair and renovation of the historic Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner, MS.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Public officers; clarify ineligibility to serve after pleading guilty to a felony.
Levees; clarify prohibited activities.
Justice courts; reform.
Distinctive license tags; authorize for various purposes.
Mississippi Tourism and Film Task Force; create.
"Troops to Teachers" Pilot Program; establish in the public schools.
Petroleum products; revise specification for gasoline-oxygenate blends.
Passed the Senate · 10
Mississippi Performance Review Act of 2008; enact.
Major medical leave; state law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty shall not be required to use.
Underground utility lines; require operators to be members of Mississippi One-Call System, Inc.
Bonds; authorize issuance of g.o. bonds to provide funds for Mississippi Rural Impact Fund.
Bonds; increase amount issued under the MS Business Investment Act for loans and grants to cities and counties for infrastructure.
Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; revise certain provisions of.
Drug houses; revise municipality authority over.
Eminent domain; restrict to direct public use.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 84 in Adams County as "Richard Wright Memorial Highway."
Economic Development; create the Mid-Delta Industrial Commission.
Out of committee · 2
Identity theft; establish procedure for victim to have debt forgiven and credit reports purged.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers who are first-time homebuyers of a principal residence in this state.
In committee · 25
Check casher license; applicants convicted of a felony not eligible.
Local government records; increase fee for filing public documents.
Workers' compensation disability payments; extend time period for receiving.
Medicaid and S.C.H.I.P.; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail.
Justice court; revise civil monetary jurisdiction.
Minimum standards; revise time during which terminating officer must reimburse employing entity.
Residential property foreclosures; prohibit unless 90-day written notice is given.
Supervisors and municipal governing authorities; require course related to offices after elected.
Mississippi Youthbuild Act; create.
Adequate Education Program; increase adjustment to base student cost for at-risk students.
Health insurance policies; increase maximum amount of required coverage for alcoholism.
Alcoholic beverages; authorize special purpose permits to serve and sell alcoholic beverages.
Insurance; prohibit use of credit information in underwriting and rating.
Home mortgages; prohibit certain mortgage lending practices.
Affordable and quality low-income housing; establish initiatives to improve.
School districts; pilot program requiring pupils to read a minimum of four books per school year.
Southwest Rural Agricultural Incubator; IHL establish at ASU in conjunction with local governments.
Alcorn State University; IHL establish a Robotics and Automation Institute.
Exoneration; provide for compensation.
Real estate transactions; require disclosure if property used as methamphetamine lab.
Nonprofit corporations; revise audit threshold amount.
Criminal convictions; judge to explain to convict whether he remains a qualified elector.
Taxation; increase various taxes.
Cigarette tax; increase and earmark revenue from increase to Medicaid.
Alcoholic beverages and cigarettes; increase tax and deposit proceeds in special fund for trauma care/Medicaid.