Bills in the 2008 Regular Session, Senate.
Robert L. Jackson
Sponsored
Became law1
Levees; clarify prohibited activities.
Passed the Senate4
Industrial Development Authority of Coahoma County; change name to the Economic Development Authority of Coahoma County.
Tunica County; authorize contributions to Mid-State Opportunity, Inc.
Tunica County; may contribute to Institute of Community Services.
Tunica County; authorize contributions to Aaron E. Henry Community Health Clinic and G.A. Stover Health Clinic, P.A.
In committee19
Parole; provide that first offenders for selling drugs may be eligible for parole.
Check casher license; applicants convicted of a felony not eligible.
Local government records; increase fee for filing public documents.
Hospice licensure; delete moratorium on new applications.
Workers' compensation disability payments; extend time period for receiving.
Ad valorem taxes; remove the provision that prescribes the manner in which affordable rental housing must be appraised.
Justice court; revise civil monetary jurisdiction.
Minimum standards; revise time during which terminating officer must reimburse employing entity.
Unspent TANF funds; DHS transfer to CCDF for expenditure for children.
Homeowner's Emergency Assistance Loan Program; establish under the Mississippi Home Corporation.
TANF recipients; require Department of Human Services to track earnings to determine post assistance outcome.
Compensation of local school board members; authorize school district levying authority to supplement.
Home mortgages; prohibit certain mortgage lending practices.
MS Affordable Housing Trust Fund; create to assist in the development, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable housing.
Affordable and quality low-income housing; establish initiatives to improve.
Tax incidence; require annual report by State Tax Commission and require tax equity note attached to bills.
Open enrollment college preparatory school; establish pilot program in Clarksdale.
Matching fund requirements for grants; place limits on amount cities and towns must provide when applying for grants.
Nonprofit corporations; revise audit threshold amount.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Teacher salary experience increments; authorize up to 35 years.
Drug courts; encourage increase in number.
"Teach For America" grant program; establish to provide a national teacher corps program in the Mississippi Delta.
Justice courts; reform.
Children adopted through state-supported adoption agency; provide for continuation of Medicaid benefits.
Distinctive license tags; authorize for various purposes.
"Troops to Teachers" Pilot Program; establish in the public schools.
MS Alternative Housing Program units; authorize disposal in accordance with federal grant guidelines.
Passed the Senate · 9
Major medical leave; state law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty shall not be required to use.
Underground utility lines; require operators to be members of Mississippi One-Call System, Inc.
Local government; prohibit from placing certain restrictions on existing shooting ranges.
Bonds; increase the amount of bonds issued for the Emerging Crops Fund for minority economic development.
Bonds; increase amount issued under the MS Business Investment Act for loans and grants to cities and counties for infrastructure.
Eminent domain; restrict to direct public use.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 84 in Adams County as "Richard Wright Memorial Highway."
Employer-assisted housing program; authorize for public employers; payments under not considered gross income.
Illegal immigrants; revise penalty for false I.D., transporting of, and aiding and abetting those offenses.
Out of committee · 3
Cultural tourism in the Delta; create initiatives.
Mississippi Department of Labor and Commissioner of Labor; establish.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers who are first-time homebuyers of a principal residence in this state.
In committee · 20
School employment procedures law; reduce probationary period for certified employees.
Medicaid and S.C.H.I.P.; redetermination of eligibility for shall be available by mail.
Ammunition; require serial coding.
Delta Regional Housing Clearinghouse; create in regard to efforts to improve housing in Delta region.
Residential property foreclosures; prohibit unless 90-day written notice is given.
Retired teachers; may draw retirement benefits and be reemployed as teachers if they have 25 years of creditable service.
Task force to report on incentives for teachers and administrators in the Delta to serve at-risk students; create.
Prekindergarten programs; require under-performing school districts in the Delta to implement.
Physical therapy; extend repealers on certain sections in licensure law.
Supervisors and municipal governing authorities; require course related to offices after elected.
Chronic diseases; Health Department shall establish WISEWOMAN & WISEMAN programs to reduce incidences of.
Mississippi Youthbuild Act; create.
Adequate Education Program; increase adjustment to base student cost for at-risk students.
Health insurance policies; increase maximum amount of required coverage for alcoholism.
Insurance; prohibit use of credit information in underwriting and rating.
Real estate transactions; require disclosure if property used as methamphetamine lab.
Taxation; increase various taxes.
Cigarette tax; increase and earmark revenue from increase to Medicaid.
Bonds; authorize the issuance of g.o. bonds for the repair and renovation of the historic Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner, MS.
Alcoholic beverages and cigarettes; increase tax and deposit proceeds in special fund for trauma care/Medicaid.