Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, Senate.
Kelvin Butler
Sponsored
Became law1
City of McComb; authorize to impose a tourism tax to promote tourism, parks and recreation.
Passed the Senate2
Driver's License; additional $1 for Keep Mississippi Beautiful, Inc., for litter prevention.
Driving; prohibit texting and revise punishment for no license.
Out of committee2
Elections; Secretary of State shall conduct a study on the feasibility of allowing students to vote via the Internet.
Pike County; authorize extension of the qualifying deadline for candidates for certain county offices.
In committee13
Texting while driving; prohibit.
Legislative Internship Program; authorize IHL to administer under certain conditions.
Auto liability insurance coverage; require before receiving tag.
Prekindergarten programs; commit funding for.
Tuition-free attendance at any state IHL or community college; authorize for students with at least 3.0 GPA.
Loans over a certain amount; borrower may skip one monthly payment per calendar year.
Kindergarten-age children; require compulsory school attendance for all.
Malicious prosecution; define as an intentional common-law tort.
Retired teachers; may draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if they have 30 years of creditable service.
Tuition-free attendance at any state IHL or community college; authorize for Mississippi residents age 65 or over.
Gaming; create statewide lottery to fund Hope College Scholarship Program.
Nonsettling manufacturer cigarettes; increase fee imposed upon.
Tobacco Tax Law; provide for the tax on little cigars.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
2011 First Extraordinary Session · Bonds; issue for Mississippi Industry Incentive Financing Revolving Fund and revise Mississippi Advantage Jobs Act.
All-terrain vehicles; require competency training and helmets under a certain age.
Adams County; authorize to create or join a county railroad authority or regional railroad authority.
Blue Alert System; create.
"Mississippi Pharmacy Practice Act"; extend repealer on and make technical amendments.
Memorial highway; designate a certain segment of I-59 as "Mississippi Gold Star Memorial Highway."
Ad valorem school taxes; exempt publication requirement if no increase in ad valorem tax effort in dollars is proposed.
Feticide; revise killing or injury of an unborn child.
Veterans Day; clarify public observance of.
Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act; enact.
Passed the Senate · 9
Tort immunity; include food donated to needy.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers who are first-time homebuyers of a principal residence in this state.
Schedule I; expand definition of cathinone derivatives and synthetic cannabinoids.
Wildlife; prohibits nonresidents from hunting in second season of hunting deer with guns and dogs in the Homochitto Nat'l. Forest.
Task Force to Study Teacher Salaries; establish.
Emerging Crops Fund; loan program for agribusinesses engaged in poultry production is separate from other loan programs in the fund.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as "William R. 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway."
Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; revise certain provisions of.
Ad valorem tax; local governing authorities may grant an exemption of homesteads of certain residents serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
In committee · 4
Chancery clerks; authorize, upon request, the redaction of social security numbers on recorded documents.
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum; establish commission to select site and employ director.
Mississippi Check Cashers Act; extend repealer on.
Bonds; authorize issuance for establishment of the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail.