Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, House.
De'Keither A. Stamps
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Municipalities, certain; extend repealer on authority to create program addressing delinquent customer water bills.
In committee9
First Responders Incentive Program; establish.
Income tax; exempt all compensation of persons retired from military.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Hinds County with construction of two water wells and related towers.
Appropriation; Hinds County for construction of two water wells and related towers for a new detention center.
Appropriation; Hinds County for construction of two water wells and related towers for a new detention center.
Appropriation; Town of Utica for cost of boring projects for gas lines.
Appropriation; Town of Utica for purchasing public works equipment.
Appropriation; Town of Raymond for purchasing public works equipment.
Appropriation; Town of Utica for purchasing and installing new advanced water metering technology.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 58
2022 First Extraordinary Session · Economic Development; provide incentives for certain economic development projects.
Bonds; revise purposes for which bonds authorized for City of Hazlehurst may be used.
Nonadmitted policy fee; revise distributions of and delete repealer on.
Sales tax; extend repealer on exemption of certain sales to Toughest Kids Foundation for Camp Kamassa in Copiah County.
Local Governments Capital Improvements Revolving Loan Fund; extend repealer on MDA authority to use certain funds for expenses.
The "Strategically Accelerating the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers (START) Act of 2022"; create.
Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund; create.
Menaced property; authorize municipalities to secure abandoned or dilapidated buildings on such property.
County veteran service officers; revise certain provisions regarding certification.
Small Business and Grocer Investment Act; extend repealer on.
Mississippi Debt Management Services Act; extend repealer on.
Mississippi Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; create.
Law Enforcement Death Benefits Trust Fund; include cause of death covered under First Responders Act of 2020.
Memorial highways; designate in Rankin County, Mississippi.
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize two additional rounds for counties and municipalities.
University-based programs of education for children with developmental disabilities; revise certain provisions.
Inmate Welfare Fund; authorize portion of fund to be used to fund Inmate Incentive to Work Program.
Nursing and Respiratory Therapy Education Incentive Program; create.
ARPA Workforce Development and Retention Act; create.
Mississippi Broadband Accessibility Act; create.
Child support; provide for imputation guidelines.
Counties and municipalities; authorize to lease facilities that are to be utilized as fire stations.
Adjutant General; authorize to convey real property in the best interest of the Mississippi Military Department.
"Representative Bill Kinkade Fostering Access and Inspiring True Hope (FAITH) Scholarship Program Act"; create.
Affidavit of Scrivener's Error; revise recording of.
Banks and savings associations; align merger approval with the Mississippi Business Corporation Act.
Sheriffs' salaries; increase.
Students in public schools; allow to participate in political activities with certain restrictions.
ARPA Rural Water Associations Infrastructure Grant Programs; establish under Department of Health.
State Appellate and trial judges and District Attorneys; increase salaries of.
Criminal investigators; increase salaries of and provide for additional appointments of.
Salary statutes; revise certain provisions relating to salaries of state employees and officials.
Appropriation; DFA for providing funds to destination marketing organizations, nonprofit museums and MS Main Street Association.
Appropriation; IHL for funding Nursing and Respiratory Therapy Education Incentive Program.
Appropriation; Department of Health for ARPA Rural Water Associations Infrastructure Grant Program.
Appropriation; additional to DPS for the Mississippi Law Enforcement and Fire Fighters Premium Pay Program.
Appropriation; Insurance, Department of.
Appropriation; Fire Academy.
Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Environmental Quality, Department of.
Appropriation; Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Department of.
Appropriation; Grand Gulf Military Monument Commission.
Appropriation; Oil and Gas Board.
Appropriation; Public Service Commission.
Appropriation; Public Utilities Staff.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Forestry Commission.
Appropriation; Soil and Water Conservation Commission.
Appropriation; District attorneys and staff.
Appropriation; Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Office of.
Appropriation; State Public Defender, Office of.
Appropriation; Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and trial judges services.
Appropriation; DFA - Office of Insurance for State and School Employees' Life and Health Insurance Plan.
Pregnancy Resource Act; create.
Clinton/Raymond/Bolton Wastewater Authority Act; create.
Vetoed · 1
Budget; provide for various transfers of funds, create various special funds.
Passed the House · 56
Nationally certified licensed school employees; delete caps on nurses and speech pathologists and add athletic trainers for salary supplements.
CDL; prohibit for persons convicted of certain trafficking crimes.
"College Sticker Price Act of 2022"; enact to provide students and families certain program and cost information.
Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program; extend expiration date for Department of Health to make physician grants.
Commissioner of Banking and Consumer Finance; extend repealer on authority to join certain examinations with Federal Reserve Bank.
Nonpublic schools; authorize those accredited by a regional agency to use criminal background check procedures as used by public schools.
"Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act"; revise definition of "eligible student" and "eligible school" to include students with a dyslexia diagnosis.
"Mississippi Healthy Food and Families Program"; create.
The Sexual Assault Response for College Students Act; create.
Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a District Innovation.
Child support; suspend for incarcerated persons under certain conditions.
Municipalities; authorize waiver of liens, under certain circumstances, for costs associated with cleaning menaced property.
Scrap metal; revise various provisions that regulate.
Appraisal Management Companies; extend repealer on registration requirements under Mississippi Appraisal Company Act.
"Mississippi Health Care Workers Retention Act of 2022"; create.
Rural Physicians Scholarship Program; expand to include a loan repayment program for graduates who practice in rural areas.
COVID-19 Mississippi Local Provider Innovation Grant Program; create to be administered by Department of Health.
Appropriation; additional to DPS from Death Benefits Trust Fund to pay benefits covered under First Responder Act.
Arrest warrants for sex offenses against children; authorize upon oral testimony by person requesting.
MS Computer Science and Cyber Education Equality Act; authorize certified or classified staff to provide instruction under.
Mental Awareness Program for School Act; enact to provide for mental health service providers and certain trauma-informed training.
Mississippi Motor Vehicle Commission Law; prohibit direct sales by manufacturers except as provided.
State budget; revise provisions of several FY22 appropriation bills.
Autopsies; create "Jenna's Law" to require autopsies to include inquiring about whether death was result of seizure or epilepsy.
Education Enhancement Fund; revise date of issuance of classroom supply procurement cards.
Hospitals; establish grant program for expansions of hospital facilities that increase capacity as needed to treat more COVID-19 patients.
Sellers of alternative nicotine products and package retailers; require to have a third-party age verification service.
Foresters; liable for cost of timber for failure to provide scale tickets to landowners if logger fails to remit payment to forester for timber.
"Property Clean-up Revolving Fund"; establish.
Public Service Commission; remove from the provisions of the Mississippi Budget Transparency and Simplification Act.
Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund; create.
The Sexual Assault Survivors' DNA Bill of Rights; create.
Gifted education; require school districts to provide for students in Grades 7 and 8.
Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program; expand to allow certified academic language therapists (CALT); to provide dyslexia therapy services.
Mississippi National Guard; revise conditions under which members will be placed on retired list.
"Uniform Athlete Agents Act"; revise to align agency requirement with provisions of the "MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act."
MCOPS programs; authorize training for to provide at any approved training academy in the state.
"Equity in Distance Learning Act"; revise certain provisions of.
Family Engagement Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Program; require MDE to establish as a component of the ELC Act of 2013.
Highway Patrol and MBN officers; increase salaries of.
Real property; establish process to remove discriminatory language from recorded instruments of conveyance.
"Mississippi Grain Indemnity Act"; enact.
Dual Credit Community College Scholarship Program; create.
Highway Patrol officers and Narcotics Bureau officers; revise the salaries of.
ARPA Wastewater and Drinking Water Infrastructure Grant Programs; establish under DEQ and Department of Health.
Reverse auction; revise method of receiving bids through for agencies and governing authorities.
Appropriation; Community College Board for Community and Junior College Nursing Supplemental Funding Program.
Bonds; authorize issuance for the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund.
Appropriation; DEQ for ARPA Wastewater Infrastructure Grant Program.
Appropriation; Mississippi Broadband Commission.
Alternative-fuel fueling station; impose tax on motor vehicles charged at.
Appropriation; DFA - Bureau of Building for projects at agencies, institutions and colleges.
Income tax; authorize a tax credit for qualified wood energy products and forest maintenance projects.
Bonds; authorize issuance for defeasing bonds issued for the purpose of accelerating certain highway projects.
Children's Promise Act; revise certain provisions.
City of Jackson; authorize increase hotel/motel tax to provide funding for Jackson Convention Center.
Out of committee · 3
Mississippi Veterans Home Perpetual Care Fund; create.
Mississippi Veterans Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund; create.
Marriage; authorize military judges to solemnize.
In committee · 40
Suffrage; restore to all upon meeting all terms and conditions of sentence.
Mississippi Department of Labor; create.
Right to vote; restore automatically once a person has completed all sentencing requirements.
"Ban-the-Box Act"; create to prohibit public employers from using criminal history as a bar to employment.
Workers' Compensation Law; increase maximum total recovery under to 520 weeks.
Sexual harassment; create a state cause of action.
Mississippi congressional districts; reapportion.
Workers' compensation; require emergency hearing upon request of either party.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority with purchasing fire service equipment.
Early voting; require Secretary of State to authorize for overseas military.
Seventh Circuit Court District; authorize additional judges.
Women's Economic Security Act of 2022; create.
Mississippi Pregnant Workers Fairness Act; create.
Civics; require State Board of Education to develop curriculum for public middle and high school students.
Evelyn Gandy Fair Pay Act; create.
Evelyn Gandy Fair Pay Act; create to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex.
2022 Women's Economic Security Act; create.
Teacher education program and licensure requirements; remove the option for a 21 ACT score (or SAT equivalent) for eligibility.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for improvements to Jackson Zoo.
Bonds; authorize issuance for construction of building for School of Public Health at Jackson State University.
Jackson Metropolitan Area Airport Authority; repeal.
Appropriation; City of Jackson for constructing detention center for misdemeanor offenders.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with construction of a park.
The Crown Act; create to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles in workplace and schools.
Voting rights; restore to all felons upon satisfying all of the sentencing requirements of the conviction.
Capitol Complex Improvement District; require 10% of funds to compensate City of Jackson for police and fire.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with making repairs and improvements to water and sewer systems.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist with maintenance of the Mississippi Telecommunication Conference and Training Center.
County public defenders; require salary of all to be the same as district attorneys.
Land banks; authorize counties and municipalities to create to convert certain property to productive use.
Chancery court; require to order certain persons held pending mental evaluation.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to assist JSU with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Program.
Retirement; county board attorneys and city attorneys shall be members of PERS regardless of hours/week worked.
Teachers; allow to participate in strikes in any year during which no legislative raise is given.
Teacher strikes; repeal prohibition of.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with construction of a new Fire Station 5.
Civil Rights Memorial Day; designate the last Monday of April as.
Indigenous Native American Day; declare the second Monday in October as.
Civil Air Patrol members; grant leave of absence from civil occupations in public or private business during emergency relief efforts.
Appropriation; Department of Health for MAGnet community Health Disparity Program.