Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Tom Miles
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Transportation funding; authorize public-private partnerships to include naming rights.
In committee12
Teacher licensure; provide to certain individuals with a minimum of ten years experience in public school districts or certain nonpublic schools.
End-of-course assessments; remove mandatory requirement of passing score as a condition of graduation.
Statewide Assessment Program; require SBE to use ACT Aspire as summative assessment.
End-of-course subject area tests; discontinue and require administration of ACT to determine proficiency.
High school curriculum; require elective secular courses on the Bible and religion.
Holy Bible; designate as the official state book of Mississippi.
English language learners; require waivers of accountability for districts with 25% of enrollment being.
English language learners; increase funding to districts with 20% or more enrolled student population comprised of.
Mississippi English Language Learners Scholarship Program; create under the Critical Needs Teacher Scholarship Program.
Sales tax; create diversion to counties.
Trooper training class; require Legislature to appropriate funds in 2020 and 2021 to defray expenses of.
State-county work programs; require Department of Corrections to pay costs for the housing of state offenders who are housed in county jails and participate in.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Center for Rural Health Innovation; establish to provide services and resources to rural hospitals.
Baby Drop-off Law; revise.
State Fire Academy; designate as an authorized medical first responder training program.
Memorial highways; designate various throughout the state.
Hunter safety course; authorize school districts to offer as part of their curriculum.
Appropriation; Wireless Communication Commission for upgrades to network.
Passed the House · 12
Daylight saving time; observe year-round if federal law is amended to allow it.
Highway sign; authorize erection of on MS Hwy 25 near Pisgah exit to honor Olympic Gold Medalist Tori Bowie.
Law enforcement officers; allow off-duty use of official vehicles while performing certain volunteer services in off-duty hours.
Memorial Highway; designate U.S. Highway 45 in Alcorn County and Prentiss County as "Speaker William J. 'Billy' McCoy Memorial Highway."
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of MS Highway 15 in Newton and Neshoba counties as "Judge Marcus D. Gordon Memorial Highway".
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities.
Use tax; revise certain provisions regarding funds distributed to municipalities/counties for road and bridge improvements.
Sales tax; divert certain sales tax revenue to special fund for state parks improvement.
Nonadmitted policy fee; delete repealer on and revise distribution of.
Emerging Crops Fund; increase maximum loan amount and total bonding authority under.
Computer science curriculum; require State Department of Education to implement in K-12 public schools.
Career and technical education; revise curriculum, instructor license requirements and certain assessments.
Out of committee · 1
Interstate compact; authorize State of Mississippi to enter into with other southern states to expand market access to health insurance.
In committee · 11
End-of-course subject area tests; discontinue and require minimum score on the ACT for graduation.
U.S. History end-of-course subject area test; remove requirement for the administration for purpose of graduation.
Health insurance carriers; require to cap patient cost for prescriptions for insulin drugs.
Interstate Compact on Second Amendment Sactuary; authorize State of MS to enter into with other southern states.
Mobile homes; give owner of two years to redeem the property after sold for taxes.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property to volunteer fire departments for use solely in department purposes.
Employees terminated from certain agencies, departments, institutions or nonprofits; prohibit from receiving other similar employment.
State Superintendent of Public Education; align salary to no more than 150% of Governor's salary.
Qualification deadline; change to February 1 for statewide and county elected officials.
Corporal punishment; authorize parents to opt in for use in districts with prohibitions against.
Computer science; require to be taught in all public schools.