Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, Senate.
Joel R.Carter, Jr.
Sponsored
Passed the Senate3
Advanced recycling; decrease plastic waste.
Mississippi Broadband Expansion Act; enact.
Sheriffs; increase annual salaries of.
Out of committee1
Carbon dioxide geologic sequestration; revise laws regarding.
In committee6
Mississippi Voter Identification Cards; delete references to constitutional amendment.
Social media; require accountability, responsibility and transparency.
Anti-SLAPP law; create the Public Speech Protection Act.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tags; authorize for supporters of Pro-Life Billboard Initiative.
Alcoholic beverages; allow local authorities of wet jurisdictions to permit package retail sales on Sunday.
City of Gulfport; authorize to contribute funds to a motor vehicle transportation system commission.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Department of Public Safety; revise salaries of officers.
Volunteer firefighters; allow local governments to pay certain expenses for injury, illness and insurance.
Counties; delete the duty of the clerk of the board of supervisors to report to the grand jury.
Passed the Senate · 6
Nationally certified school employees; delete caps on nurses & speech pathologists, add athletic trainers for salary supplements.
Teachers' salaries; provide increase to minimum salary.
Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund; create.
Institutions of Higher Learning; authorize to negotiate long-term lease of property administered by State Port Authority.
Law Enforcement Officers Death Benefits Trust Fund; include presumption of eligibility for officers with COVID-19.
Income tax; authorize credit for certain expenditures for railroad reconstruction or replacement or new rail infrastructure.
In committee · 3
USM Gulf Park property; authorize DFA to sell or lease certain parcel in Harrison County.
Vaccines; prevent entities that receive state funding from requiring individuals to receive COVID vaccine.
"Mississippi Coastal Master Plan Act of 2022"; enact.