Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
David Parker
Sponsored
Became law2
State Board of Funeral Service; extend the repealer of.
Professional music therapists; provide for licensure by State Department of Health.
Passed the Senate12
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Surplus property; certain purchases from Legislature are not violations of ethics laws.
Public contracts for energy efficiency services; extend the repealer of.
Telework policies of state agencies; extend the repealer of.
Public Procurement Review Board; expand the contract and emergency contract reviewing authority of.
Public works contracts; increase the threshold for performance and payment bonds.
Public Water Authorities; expand the definition of qualified corporation.
Sales Tax Diversion Study Committee; establish.
Bid procurement requirement; allow public schools purchasing technology for distribution to be exempt from.
Mississippi K-12 and Postsecondary Mental Health Task Force; extend operation of.
Mississippi K-12 and Postsecondary Mental Health Act of 2025; enact, and establish Executive Committee of ICCCY.
Public schools; allow retired administrators to return to work as teachers.
Ad valorem taxes; authorize local governments to grant exemptions for raw materials and work in progress inventory.
Out of committee3
Mississippi Public Records Act; exempt text messages unless messages are related to the business of the public body.
Alcoholic beverage pricing; prevent discrimination against distributors and wholesalers.
State agencies; require notice of certain consent decrees and revise provision related to Department of Audit.
In committee8
Attorney General; impose 60-day and 25-day deadlines for regular and expedited opinions, respectively.
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; bring forward sections.
Mississippi School Safety Act of 2019; make various updates to.
School resource officers; enhance provisions for.
Mississippi Public Records Act; allow public bodies to process requests from matters of litigation as privileged.
Mississippi Public Records Act; allow public bodies to deny excessive public records requests.
Supplemental pay and loan repayment programs; add salary supplement for school psychologists.
Public schools; require school boards to adopt policy on bell-to-bell cell phone prohibition.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Community and Junior Colleges Board - Administrative expenses.
2025 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Community and Junior Colleges Board - Support for community and junior colleges.
Parker's Law; delete repealer on crime of fentanyl delivery resulting in death.
Blue Envelope Program; establish to enhance effective communication between law enforcement and drivers with autism.
Real property; clarify eviction procedures, provide procedure for removal from RV parks.
Appropriation; Chiropractic Examiners, Board of.
City of Olive Branch; extend repealer on 1% hotel/motel tax and issuance of bonds for tourism and parks and recreation.
Passed the Senate · 20
Financial literacy curriculum; require specific courses in public schools in grades 6-12.
Education; require public schools to adopt policies prohibiting or restricting cell phone possession or use by students in class.
Cardiac Emergency Response Plan; revise to include airway clearance devices.
Driver's license; require indication of sex to be consistent with sex of the individual determined at birth.
Criminal law; increase penalties for crimes of impersonating patrolman or law enforcement officer.
Images or audio altered or created by digitization; criminalize dissemination of in certain circumstances.
REFOCUS Act; enact.
Certain mental health trainings and support services; require community colleges and public universities to provide.
Working Cash-Stabilization Reserve Fund; increase the limit of diversion to.
Pharmacy Benefit Prompt Pay Act; define requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacy services administrative organizations.
State Treasury Efficiency Act; enact.
TVA Service Area Utilities Grant Fund; establish, and fund with g.o. bonds and diversion of TVA payments in lieu of taxes.
Mississippi Work and Save Program; create.
Mississippi Ireland Trade Commission; establish.
Appropriation; Community and Junior Colleges Board - Administrative expenses.
Appropriation; Community and Junior Colleges Board - Support for community and junior colleges.
Appropriation; Employment Security, Department of.
Appropriation; Dental Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Pharmacy, Board of.
Economic development incentives; repeal/remove certain credits, exemptions and payments overlapping with mFlex.
In committee · 1
Nonemergency medical transportation services; define terms and revise certain provisions related to.