Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
David Parker
Sponsored
Became law5
American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Nurse/Allied Health Workforce Development and Retention Act; create.
Secretary of State; clarify authority to transfer land records to Department of Archives and History.
ARPA Workforce Development and Retention Act; provide expiration date of grant funds.
Nonemergency transportation providers; extend date by which providers may provide service without a permit.
MS Workforce Training and Education Act; extend repealer on the act and in 2004 chapter law for conforming sections.
Passed the Senate6
Child support; create presumption that support continues past the age of majority for a disabled child.
Income tax credit; allow for employer making direct payments to entity for dependent care on behalf of employee.
MS Comprehensive Workforce Training & Education Consolidation Act of 2004; extend repealer on code sections conformed to.
Mississippi Nonprofit Transparency Act; create.
Mississippi Comprehensive Workforce Training and Education Consolidation Act of 2004; extend repealer on.
Mississippi Capitol Region Utility Act; create.
Out of committee1
Mississippi Youth Career and Workforce Preparation Grant Program; create.
In committee4
Elections; Elections Support Funds allocation amendment.
Adoption; authorize court to waive home study requirement, criminalize disclosure of records.
Mississippi Flexible Tax Incentive Act; bring forward code sections for the purpose of possible amendment.
City of Olive Branch; authorize to transfer certain properties within industrial, technological or educational parks.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Age of majority; lower to 18 for securing loans and entering contracts for real property.
Terroristic threats; revise elements of.
Disabled veterans license tags; revise provisions regarding disability rating and persons eligible for.
Prevention of overdoses; authorize administration of opioid antagonists by certain persons, provide immunity to.
Material harmful to minors; provide for liability for any entity that distributes on the internet without age verification.
Foster Care and Adoption Task Force; create.
"Secretary of State Eric Clark Coastal Preserve" and "Gollott Island/Godfather Point"; Department of Marine Resources designate.
Highways; dedicate a section of Highway 315 to Nolan Mettetal.
Minority; remove for beneficiaries of certain insurance policies.
Homestead; provide full exemption for unremarried surviving spouse of U.S. military member killed on active duty or training.
Law enforcement officers & fire fighters death benefits black tag; authorize black version of regular tag.
Mississippi Small Business Investment Company Act; increase the amount of investment tax credits that can be allocated under.
Vetoed · 1
Mississippi Prior Authorization Reform Act; enact.
Passed the Senate · 4
Sales tax; exempt sales of coins, currency and bullion.
Elections; penalty for fraudulently requesting or submitting absentee ballots.
Circuit court districts; increase number of assistant district attorneys and criminal investigators.
Nonprofit corporations which receive public funds; require reporting to Secretary of State.
Out of committee · 1
Mississippi Foster Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities; create.
In committee · 1
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Desoto County for weight-bearing road.