Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Nick Bain
Sponsored
Became law6
Autopsies; provide for confidentiality of photographs and video and audio recordings with exceptions.
MDHS fraud investigators; provide they shall be law enforcement officers.
"Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act"; create.
Cemeteries; authorize to disinter and reinter dead human remains for next of kin instructions.
Driver's license; require Department of Public Safety to allow official identifying document of MDOC to suffice for.
DPS; revise law regarding.
Passed the House6
Community and junior colleges; authorize boards of trustees to approve policies permitting waiver of out-of-state tuition.
Community College Boards of Trustees; revise composition of Northeast Mississippi and Coahoma Community Colleges.
Drug Intervention Courts; standardize references.
Pre-trial Intervention; prohibit certain amount of public embezzlement for.
Habitual offender; revise penalties for.
Tobacco and alternative nicotine products; increase age to 21 and require government-issued photographic identification.
Out of committee5
Dogs; regulate and provide penalties for those with a history of biting.
Judicial districts; create Twenty-fourth Circuit Court.
State assessments; deposit certain into designated special funds instead of General Fund.
Sexual battery; remove statute of limitations for prosecution of crime of.
Terroristic Threats; revise provisions.
In committee23
Expungement; authorize for completion of drug court.
Telecommunications Fraud Prevention and Utility Infrastructure Protection Act; create.
Districts of Innovations; require SDE to recognize use of Cambridge Assessment or other nationally recognized assessment for accountability ratings.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Alcorn County with repair and renovation of county courthouse.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Alcorn County with purchase of land and building to house county offices.
Criminal investigators; increase salary of.
"Mississippi Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act of 2021"; create.
Asset forfeiture proceeds; clarify use is for increase in law enforcement budget.
Indigent appeals; revise certain provisions.
Electronic tracking devices; prohibit tracking of another person's vehicle.
County coroners; authorize to contract with a private pathologist to perform autopsies.
Sexting by minors; provide as a delinquent misdemeanor act.
First Circuit Court District; revise composition of judgeships.
Voyeurism; revise sentencing options.
Vaping; require the office of the Attorney General to develop and publish a vapor products directory.
Mississippi Highway Patrol; increase pay.
State Public Defender; revise certain powers and duties of.
Postsecondary educational institutions; require 50% in person instruction as condition of receiving legislative appropriation.
State Superintendent of Public Education; align salary of to no more than 150% of Governor's salary.
2021 Mississippi Education Task Force; create to review state regulations and accountability system.
Mississippi Dementia Care Program; create pilot program to provide services for caregivers of and persons with Alzheimer's or dementia.
Appropriation; DPS for constructing and staffing a new forensic laboratory in Corinth.
Appropriation; Alcorn County for funding an incentive program for remote workers to relocate to the county.
Co-sponsored
Passed the House · 2
Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine; authorize sales and purchase of certain products containing without a prescription.
Firearms restriction; limit those by cities, counties and state agencies.
Out of committee · 1
Pecan Harvesting Law; revise penalties for violating.
In committee · 1
Bonds; authorize issuance for Mississippi Ports Improvements Fund.