Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Tom Miles
Sponsored
Became law1
City of Forest; authorize a tax on hotels/motels and restaurants to promote tourism, parks and recreation.
In committee14
Sales tax; exempt sales of perishable food items to certain charitable organizations.
Statewide Assessment Program; require SBE to use ACT Aspire as summative assessment.
End-of-course assessments; remove mandatory requirement of passing score as a condition of graduation.
Statewide testing program; require the SBE to cease administration of for the 2020-2021 school year.
End-of-course subject area tests; discontinue and require minimum score on the ACT for graduation.
Teacher licensure; provide to certain individuals with a minimum of ten years experience in public school districts or certain nonpublic schools.
English language learners; increase funding to districts with 20% or more enrolled student population comprised of.
Mississippi English Language Learners Scholarship Program; create.
English language learners; require waivers of accountability for districts with 25% of enrollment being.
Transportation funding; authorize public-private partnerships to include naming rights.
Trooper training class; require Legislature to appropriate funds in 2021 and 2022 sessions to defray expenses of.
Sales tax; create diversion to counties.
Holy Bible; designate as the official state book of Mississippi.
Mississippi Development Authority Tourism Advertising Fund; use portion of monies in to advertise state parks.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Work release program; authorize pilot program to authorize sheriff to assign offenders to while confined in jail.
MDOT; require maintenance of rights-of-way of state highways inside municipal limits with 10,000 or less population.
Passed the House · 5
Mississippi Broadband Accessibility Act; create.
Career and technical education; revise curriculum, instructor license requirements and certain assessments.
Highway sign; authorize erection of on MS Hwy 25 near Pisgah exit to honor Olympic Gold Medalist Tori Bowie.
Mississippi Educational Talent Recruitment Act; create.
Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund; create.
Out of committee · 2
State Parks; provide funding from net proceeds of the Mississippi Lottery Corporation.
Law enforcement; provide for and amend various laws regarding.
In committee · 4
Computer science; require to be taught in all public schools.
Sales tax; divert certain sales tax revenue to special fund for state park improvements.
Appropriations; Department of Education for administering ACT WorkKeys Assessment to all career and technical education students.
Income tax; exempt all compensation of persons retired from military.