Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
Kelvin Butler
Sponsored
Passed the Senate1
City of McComb; extend repealer on hotel/motel tourism tax.
In committee27
Retired teachers; allow to draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if having 30 years of creditable service.
Hunting; require tree stands to be tagged with name and address of owner.
Prekindergarten programs; increase funding for second and third phase.
Legislative Internship Program; authorize IHL to administer under certain conditions.
Kindergarten-age children; require compulsory school attendance for all.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Natchez in paying costs of Concord Avenue Drainage Improvement Project.
Bonds; authorize to assist in paying costs of renovating Margaret Martin Performing Arts Center in Natchez, Mississippi.
General Funds; FY2024 appropriation to South Pike School District for renovations to its school buildings.
Bonds; authorize to assist Wilkinson County in paying the costs of road and bridge repairs and abandoned hospital removal.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist South Pike School District in paying costs of repair and renovation of buildings.
Medicaid; expand eligibility to include individuals entitled to benefits under federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Women's Economic Security Act of 2023; enact and expand eligibility under federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Elections; Secretary of State shall conduct study on the feasibility of allowing students to vote via the internet.
Mississippi Paid Family Leave Act; enact.
Ban-the-Box Act; enact.
General Funds; FY2024 appropriation to Town of Magnolia for North Cherry Street drainage improvements.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Walthall County for construction of frontage road on south side of US-98 Bypass.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Town of Tylertown for improvements to events center.
General Funds; FY2024 appropriation to City of McComb for building and equipping fire station.
General Funds; FY2024 appropriation to Adams County for South Palestine Road overlay.
General Funds; FY2024 appropriation to Adams County for water main extension for residents.
General Funds; FY2024 appropriation to Pike County for construction of US-51 bridge for industrial park access.
"2022 Local Improvements Projects Fund"; FY 2024 apppropriation to Scenic Rivers Development Alliance and Summit Development Foundation.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to City of Natchez for drainage projects.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Town of Crosby to remove sediment along creeks.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Summit Rural Fire Department to construct a new fire station.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Southwest Mississippi Community College for dorm construction and fine arts renovation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Poll managers; increase the compensation of.
Tourism; Mississippi Main Street Revitalization Grant Program.
"Secretary of State Eric Clark Coastal Preserve" and "Gollott Island/Godfather Point"; Department of Marine Resources designate.
Highways; dedicate a section of Highway 315 to Nolan Mettetal.
Homestead; provide full exemption for unremarried surviving spouse of U.S. military member killed on active duty or training.
School board members; increase pay.
Appropriation; Agriculture and Commerce, Department of.
Appropriation; Fair and Coliseum Commission - Livestock shows.
Appropriation; Animal Health, Board of.
Appropriation; Emergency Management Agency.
Appropriation; Military Department.
Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Board.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of - State Aid Road Construction, Office of.
Appropriation; Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority.
Passed the Senate · 1
Oil and gas severance taxes; extend repealers on lower rate for production from horizontally drilled wells.
Out of committee · 2
Uniform Controlled Substances Act; revise schedules.
Pharmacy Benefit Manager; revise certain requirements of.
In committee · 19
Workers' compensation; increase maximum total recovery, remove permanent total disability compensation cap.
Medicaid; expand eligibility to include individuals entitled to benefits under federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Crown Act; enact to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles in workplace and schools.
Charter school funding; revise funding formula.
Jackson State University; provide for the construction of a six hundred room student housing project.
Initiative measure; create procedures for qualified elector to propose amendment to the Mississippi Code of 1972.
State employee salaries; direct State Personnel Board to implement across-the-board increase.
Legal holidays; remove Confederate Memorial Day and designate June 19 as Juneteenth Freedom Day.
Confederate Memorial Day; remove from list of legal holidays.
National Statuary Hall Selection Commission; create for recommending two new Mississippi statues at U.S. Capitol.
Sales tax; exempt sales of groceries.
Sales tax; exempt sales of groceries in August.
Jackson State University; create program to construct new football stadium.
Department of Human Services; require to transfer at least 30% of TANF block grant to Child Care and Development Fund.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; revise provisions of and lower eligibility for certain scholarship programs.
Applicants for TANF benefits; repeal section that required drug testing as condition of eligibility.
Department of Human Services; create governing board.
Income tax; provide credit for taxpayers claiming federal Earned Income Tax Credit.
General Fund; FY2024 appropriation to Department of Health to assist rural public hospitals at high financial risk.