Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, House.
Philip Gunn
Sponsored
Became law3
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers that employ certain veterans.
"MS Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities"; create.
Bonds; authorize issuance for repair of deficient bridges on state maintained highways.
Passed the House10
School administrators; prohibit districts from hiring as consultant if last employed by a failing district.
Historic property income tax credit; increase maximum amount of credits available and extend time within which taxpayers may be eligible to receive.
School accountability system; remove requirement for a combined state-federal system and revise name of state standards.
Estates; provide for a statutory order of abatement for shares of distributees of property of a deceased.
Foreign executor or administrator; revise authority of financial institutions to turn over property or funds of a decedent to.
Conservator; allow appointment for a single transaction.
Statewide testing program; require contract with single entity for comprehensive assessment system linked to college and career readiness.
Public school curriculum; require all school boards to establish for schools within local school district.
CON; exempt construction of clinical research unit at UMMC & repair of health care facilities damaged in natural disasters.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property and services to the Univ. of MS Medical Center Research Development Foundation.
Out of committee2
Medicaid; bring forward certain sections for possible amendment.
Workers' Compensation Assigned Risk Plan; require exhaustion of admin dispute resolution before civil action may be filed.
In committee11
School districts; exempt those meeting the highest levels of accreditation standards from certain duties.
Telecommunications towers and antennas; require certain to have markings for aviation safety.
Public school textbooks; authorize use of comparable alternatives to paper books.
MS Statewide Teacher Appraisal Rubric (M-STAR); discontinue and require local districts to adopt teacher evaluation system.
Mississippi Promise Scholarship Act of 2015; create.
Educators' personal leave; create exception to prohibition against using personal leave adjacent to a holiday for long-term employees.
Mississippi Rural Veterinarians Scholarship Program; create.
Appeal bond requirements; revise.
Appeal bond; provide for stay of execution.
Appropriation; IHL Board for planning, designing, constructing and equipping a clinical research unit at UMMC.
Appropriation; Archives & History for funds to Mississippi Heritage Trust to develop Historic Preservation Toolkit.
Co-sponsored
In committee · 1
Appropriation; Hinds County Board of Supervisors for construction of Byram-Clinton Norrell Road Parkway Project.