Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Rufus Straughter
Sponsored
In committee5
Nursing facilities; require initial assessment of patients by a physician within 10 days after admission.
Mississippi Day of Freedom and Abolishment of Slavery; declare February 7 as.
Mississippi Day of Freedom and Abolishment of Slavery; declare February 7 as.
MS Achievement School District; specify use of funds for the benefit of local school district of funds' origin.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Humphreys County with improvements to county courthouse.
Co-sponsored
Passed the House · 1
Memorial Highway; designate U.S. Highway 45 in Alcorn County and Prentiss County as "Speaker William J. 'Billy' McCoy Memorial Highway."
In committee · 34
Bonds; authorize issuance for construction of building for School of Public Health at Jackson State University.
Early voting; authorize.
Fuel tax; authorize certain municipalities to impose after an election to be used for road and bridge repair/maintenance.
Religious Freedom Act and Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act; repeal.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson in making repairs and improvements to water and sewer systems.
Oxycontin pills; limit RX to 75 pills per RX unless patient is hospitalized or in nursing home.
Hospitals; require to examine persons at ER with sickle cell disease symptoms within four hours after admission.
Body-worn cameras; prohibit law enforcement from recreating past activities with.
Retirement; county board attorneys and city attorneys shall be members of PERS regardless of hours/week worked.
Case plans for nonviolent inmates; require certain programs be placed within.
Case plans for inmates who committed violent offenses; require certain programs be placed within.
Voting systems; require those purchased to be able to scan actual ballot.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with removal and demolition of certain dilapidated and blighted properties.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to assist JSU with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Program.
Department of Corrections; authorize to administer the "Halfway House Grant Program."
Starkville High School AP Government Class of 2019 Motor Voter Act; create to establish the procedure for the automatic registration of voters.
Civil Rights Memorial Day; designate the last Monday in April as.
Inmates convicted of capital offenses; provide parole eligibility after certain requirements are met.
Jackson Metropolitan Area Airport Authority; repeal.
Mandatory minimum sentences for crimes committed by offenders; revise which offenders are eligible for.
Conjugal visits; require Department of Corrections to provide for married inmates.
Department of Corrections; require implementation of an Extended Family Visitation Program for eligible offenders.
Mississippi Prison Industries; require to pay inmates federal minimum wage for inmate labor.
Chancery clerk; require to remove social security numbers from land transfer deeds.
Case plans for inmates who committed capital offenses; require certain programs be placed within.
Voter rolls; prohibit purging names from Statewide Elections Management System 120 days or less before the date of any election.
Vocational and home economics; require curriculum for all middle, high and alternative school students.
"Keeping Our Municipalities Clean Pretrial Intervention Act"; create.
Suffrage; restore to all upon meeting all terms and conditions of sentence.
Regional correctional facilities; prohibit from operating as a private correctional facility.
United States Highway 49; designate segment from Hinds County to Coahoma County as an historic highway.
Civics; require State Board of Education to develop curriculum for public middle and high school students.
IHL Board; dissolve and provide for independent university boards of trustees.
Income tax; revise certain provisions to address investment in federally designated qualified opportunity zones.