Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, Senate.
Robert L. Jackson
Sponsored
Passed the Senate3
Tunica County; authorize contributions to Mid-State Opportunity, Inc.
Tunica County; may contribute to the Institute for Community Services.
Tunica County; authorize contributions to Aaron E. Henry Community Health Clinic and G.A. Stover Health Clinic, P.A.
In committee22
Short-Term Lender Law; create and repeal MS Check Cashers Act.
Corrections; authorize regional facility for Quitman County.
Corrections; authorize regional facility for Coahoma County.
Individual development accounts; authorize for certain low-income individuals.
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.
Matching fund requirements for grants; place limits on amount cities and towns must provide when applying for grants.
Open enrollment college preparatory school; establish pilot program in Clarksdale.
Affordable and quality low-income housing; establish initiatives to improve.
MS Affordable Housing Trust Fund; create to assist in the development, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable housing.
Law enforcement training expenses; revise time for reimbursement of formerly employing entity.
Unspent TANF funds; DHS transfer to CCDF for expenditure for children.
Homeowners' Emergency Mortgage 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.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to Tunica County for infrastructure improvements to Mid-South Fair property.
Sheriff of Tunica County; authorize additional salary supplement by board of supervisors.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 32
Income taxation; clarify exclusion from gross income National Guard and Reserve compensation.
Constables; remove repeal date that authorizes a fee for serving as a bailiff in justice court.
Corrections; remove the cap on meritorious earned time.
Task force to study failing schools and school districts; continue and assign additional responsibilities.
Early childhood education programs; authorize local school districts to operate and expend funds from any source.
Mississippi "Country Music Trail" program and historical markers; MDA Division of Tourism to establish.
Alternative school students; allowed to attend workforce training programs.
Uniform Controlled Substances Law; conform Schedule II with federal law.
MS Qualified Health Center Grant Program; continue program and revise administrative expense authority.
Sales tax; revise rate on certain sales of tractors, farm implements, logging/pulpwood equipment, repair parts and labor.
Alcoholic beverages; crimilize presentations of false documentation regarding age to purchase.
Insurance premium tax; change the date companies must file an annual reconciliation statement of taxes.
Commercial motor vehicles; authorize denial or revocation of registration if operated by certain persons.
Prison lands; extend repealer on duty of DFA to lease for agricultural purposes.
Tax Commission; reorganize into a department of revenue and an independent board of tax appeals.
Faculty physician recruitment agreements; authorize UMC to enter into under certain conditions.
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize ninth round for counties and municipalities.
Surplus food; authorize University Medical Center to donate surplus food.
Teacher/principal in-service training; shall include suicide prevention education.
Pseudoephedrine; conform sale of to federal law.
Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program; extend repealer on and require Wind Pool to give premium discount on fortified homes.
Real property; create limited exception to requiring fair-market value when acquiring property for publicly funded projects.
Public purchasing law; revise certain requirements for projects under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Highways; delete certain highways in Alcorn County from the state highway system.
Youth court proceedings; prescribe duties of youth court counsel.
Sixteenth section forest lands; authorize management services by private forester subject to approval by the SOS and Forestry Commission.
Statewide monetary assessments; clarify and revise.
Bureau of Fleet Management; authorize to seize vehicles in noncompliance and require more fuel efficiency.
Various deputy officials and public employees; require surety bond not less than a certain amount.
State Auditor; revise various powers and duties of.
Youth court; clarify termination of jurisdiction following transfer to circuit court.
Bonds; revise use of certain bond proceeds authorized for the Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
Passed the Senate · 25
Volunteer Emergency Responder Job Protection Act; create.
Driver's License; additional $1 for Keep Mississippi Beautiful, Inc., for litter prevention.
Eminent domain; restrict to direct public use.
Auto liability insurance coverage; require before receiving tag.
MS Telephone Solicitation Act; apply to cellular telephones.
Office allowance for circuit and chancery judges; allow use for travel expenses for judicial education.
Emergency services agencies; authorize fingerprinting and criminal history checks for employees.
Workers' compensation; increase certain death benefits, authorize interested party to request an autopsy.
School students with asthma; require all school districts to take certain actions relating to.
State highway system; add certain segment of Highway 301 in DeSoto County and Highway 6 in Pontotoc County.
Regional and community-based juvenile treatment programs and facilities; authorize Dept. of Human Services to develop.
Alien children in custody of Dept. of Human Services; authorize expenditure of funds for.
Excavations near underground utility facilities; require facilities to be installed with electronic locating method.
Bonds; revise purposes for certain bonds issued for the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Corrections; allow offenders convicted of small quantity drug violations to be eligible for trusty time allowance.
State IHL Board; authorize to acquire or sell real property for certain universities in their program of operations.
Mileage reimbursement for official travel; federal Internal Revenue Service allowable mileage rate.
Emergency duty leave; state employees who are members of the National Guard shall receive leave during a state of emergency.
Open top vehicles; revise requirements for covering when carrying certain loads.
Environmental Quality; authorize fee for surface mine worker safety training program.
Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act; create.
Income tax; net operating losses may be carried forward 22 years and may not be carried back.
Hunting; prohibit hunting with a firearm near a dwelling without permission of owner.
Bonds; increase amount authorized for the Supplementary Rural Fire Truck Fund and the Rural Fire Truck Fund.
Bonds; auth. g.o. bonds for DFA improvements at State Fire Academy & Local System Bridge Replacement & Rehab. Fund.
In committee · 5
2009 First Extraordinary Session · Eminent domain; restrict to direct public use.
Distinctive tag for fire fighters; distribute a portion of the fee to the MS Firefighters Association.
Income taxation; exclude wages of certain full-time students from gross income.
Sales taxation; exempt retail sales on certain clothing, and computers and calculators during the last weekend in July.
Bonds; authorize issuance for certain state highway and infrastructure projects.