Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, Senate.
David Jordan
Sponsored
Became law1
Uniform Controlled Substances Act; revise Schedules III and V.
In committee10
Health care certificate of need; remove moratorium on home health agencies.
Retired teachers; may draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if they have 25 years of creditable service.
Prekindergarten programs; require under-performing school districts in the Delta to implement.
School Employment Procedures Law; reduce probationary period for certified employees.
Qualifications for local school board; require at least 2 years of postsecondary education.
Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law; applies to students through age 18 and increase penalties for parents.
Assistant teachers; require school districts to provide notice of nonreemployment at least 5 days before the school year ends.
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs); State Dept. of Education to implement program in the public schools.
Public construction; IHL Board shall manage certain state-funded construction projects for campus homes for university presidents.
Suffrage; provide for immediate restoration upon completion of sentence and other conditions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Rural Physicians Scholarship Program; remove limitation on number of students admitted each year.
Prekindergarten programs; to be implemented by the State Department of Education on a phased-in basis.
Retirement; authorize counties to pay PERS employer contributions on net fee income of constables.
Professional licenses; certain military-trained applicants and military spouses shall receive by reciprocity when in Mississippi.
Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; increase the amount of rebates authorized under.
Public officers and employees; revise punishment for embezzlement and restrict government hiring of felons.
Mississippi Community Oriented Policing Services in Schools (MCOPS) grant program; establish in the State Department of Education.
Homestead exemption; certain leases between physically or mentally disabled and institutions are not homesteads.
Bonds; issued for various purposes.
Passed the Senate · 5
State agency property; authorize DFA as central leasing agent for all state agencies.
Tourism; create the MS Tourism Advisory Board and the Tourism Advertising and Marketing Fund; create a pilot program to fund.
Community/junior boards; may waive out-of-state tuition for nonresident students employed by Mississippi-based companies.
Severance tax; reduce for 30 months for oil and gas produced from and after 7/1/13 from horizontally drilled wells.
City of Greenwood; authorize donations of certain Katrina cottages to nonprofit organizations that provide low-income housing.
Out of committee · 1
Growth and Prosperity Act; certain businesses in high poverty census tracts are eligible.
In committee · 4
Assistant teachers; increase salaries for.
Teacher salaries funded under the MAEP; provide for 5% across the board increase.
Bonds; authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for a headquarters for the Fannie Lou Hamer Cancer Foundation.
Bonds; authorize for the Tammy Wynette Legacy Park Center.