Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, Senate.
Melanie Sojourner
Sponsored
In committee14
"Mississippi Postsecondary Textbook Pricing and Access Act of 2014"; enact.
Food stamp EBT card; require recipients to display proper identification to use an EBT card.
Acts of the Legislature; limited to one subject.
Elections; candidates to any office must file documentation of birth or naturalization in the United States.
Forestry; revise enforcement authority and duties of forestry law enforcement officers pertaining to woods arson.
Gun trust; authorize creation of.
Forestry; remove repealer on forestry arson law enforcement officers.
Forestry; abolish the Forestry Commission and transfer duties to the Division of Forestry in MS Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
Constitution; create procedure for selection of delegates to U.S. Constitution convention.
Medicaid reimbursement for physical therapy assistant services; authorize in any licensed setting.
Commercial driver's license; authorize application for by certain military-trained personnel.
Firearms and ammunition; preempt local regulation of.
Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection Law; repeal.
Taking; prohibit state cooperation with federal effort to ban firearms or seize property.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
2014 Second Extraordinary Session · Disaster response and recovery costs; authorize transfer to disaster trust fund.
Payroll date for school district employees; authorize semimonthly payroll in discretion of local school board.
Firemen; may purchase helmet and badge upon retirement or death in the line of duty.
Appropriation; Judicial Performance Commission.
Appropriation; Ethics Commission.
Appropriation; Development Authority, Mississippi.
Appropriation; Gaming Commission.
Sales taxation; exempt sales to the Mississippi Children's Museum.
Sales tax; exempt certain guided tour activities and certain livestock admissions and parking.
Passed the Senate · 1
Elections; prohibit candidates from appearing in publicly funded ads during statewide general election years.
In committee · 23
Parental access to online curriculum programs in which child is enrolled; State Board of Education to provide for.
Official dating standard to be used by public museums and publications; require "A.D." and "B.C."
Health Care Freedom Of Choice Act; enact.
Cursive writing; direct State Board of Education to require in elementary education curriculum.
Income tax; reduce the rate of tax.
Vexatious Litigant Law; enact.
Inventory; phase in an ad valorem tax exemption for.
Homestead exemption; extend to unremarried surviving spouses of totally disabled veterans.
Department of Revenue; require to conduct a feasibility regarding the elimination of ad valorem taxation.
Health insurance exchange; prohibit State of Mississippi from establishing.
Firearms; prohibit state cooperation with federal effort to ban.
Corporation franchise tax; phase out effective January 1, 2019.
Mississippi State Seal; insert "IN GOD WE TRUST."
Common Core National Education Standards; prohibit State Board of Education from implementing without full evaluation.
Common Core National Education Standards and P.A.R.C.C.; prohibit State Board of Education from implementing.
Mississippi Education Savings Scholarship Accounts Program; establish.
Federal Affordable Care Act; prohibit implementation of ACA and prohibit expansion of Medicaid Program.
Courts; prohibit application of foreign law.
Public benefits; agencies administering programs for must verify lawful presence in U.S. of applicants for.
Youth sports concussions and head injuries; provide procedures and education requirements.
Duties of article V; convention delegates define.
TANF benefits; require applicants to participate in mandatory community service programs to qualify.
Income taxation; allow a deduction for amounts contributed to accounts established to pay for uninsured wind damage to homesteads.