Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, Senate.
David Jordan
Sponsored
Became law1
Memorial highways; designate segments of U.S. Highways as memorial highways.
Passed the Senate1
City of Greenwood; authorize the levy of a tax on hotels and motels.
In committee13
Student immunization requirements; provide exemption based on philosophical beliefs of parent or guardian.
School employment procedures law; reduce probationary period for certified employees.
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); State Dept. of Education to implement program in the public schools.
Qualifications for local school board; require at least 2 years of postsecondary education.
Prekindergarten programs; require under-performing school districts in the Delta to implement.
Retired teachers; may draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if they have 25 years of creditable service.
Sex education pilot program; SBE and SBH shall establish.
Health care certificate of need; remove moratorium on home health agencies.
Employment procedures; prohibit employer from using an arrest record as a basis to deny an applicant.
Suffrage; provide for immediate restoration upon completion of sentence and other conditions.
Expunction; authorize for certain first offense felonies.
Mississippi Check Cashers Act; revise maximum fee and length of check deferral.
Assistant teachers; require school districts to provide notice of nonreemployment at least 5 days before the school year ends.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
All-terrain vehicles; require competency training and helmets under a certain age.
Blue Alert System; create.
Memorial highway; designate a certain segment of I-59 as "Mississippi Gold Star Memorial Highway."
Ad valorem school taxes; exempt publication requirement if no increase in ad valorem tax effort in dollars is proposed.
Feticide; revise killing or injury of an unborn child.
Memorial highway; designate U.S. Highway 51 in Coldwater as "Martin Luther King, Jr. Highway."
Mississippi Rating Bureau; shall publish guidelines for the grading of fire trucks.
Urban renewal agencies; authorize certain municipal property to be conveyed to.
Passed the Senate · 13
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers who are first-time homebuyers of a principal residence in this state.
Schedule I; expand definition of cathinone derivatives and synthetic cannabinoids.
Municipal elections; require election managers to be qualified electors of the municipality.
Concealed weapons; authorize carrying without permit by all prosecutors and coroners.
Homeschooled students; to be tested for grade assignment prior to transfer into public school district.
School teacher and administrator licensure; provide penalties for sexual involvement of school employees with a student.
Task Force to Study Teacher Salaries; establish.
Divorce; create bona fide separation as the 13th ground.
Driving; prohibit texting and revise punishment for no license.
Highways; revise requirements for trucks carrying loose material.
Auto liability insurance; authorize Dept. of Public Safety to implement an uninsured motorist database/increase fines.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as "William R. 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway."
Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; revise certain provisions of.
In committee · 6
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum; establish commission to select site and employ director.
Bonds; authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for construction of a Highway Patrol substation in Leflore County.
Public contracts related to a federally declared disaster; grant preference to resident contractors.
Bonds; authorize issuance for establishment of the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail.
Bonds; authorize for the Montgomery County Performing Arts Center.
Bonds; increase amount authorized for a children's museum in Hinds County.