Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, House.
Debra Gibbs
Sponsored
In committee5
Teachers; provide incentives for working in areas with critical shortage of.
Teachers' salary; implement a five-year phase in to increase to the south eastern average.
Compulsory School Attendance Law; rename as the "Kindergarten Increases Diplomas (KIDs) Act" and lower compulsory age to five years.
School buses; require those purchased after July 1, 2017, to be equipped with seat belts and on-board cameras.
Secretary of State; authorize to distribute funds from Land Records Maintenance Fund to City of Jackson.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Physical Therapy Licensure Compact; create.
Office of Physician Workforce; authorize to assist in creating/supporting residencies in addition to family medicine residencies.
Infant Mortality Reduction Collaborative; extend repealer on.
Medical examiners and pathologist; extend repealer on fees for death investigations and autopsies.
State Board of Funeral Service; extend repealer on.
Nursing Licensure Compact; create.
Maternal Mortality Review Committee; authorize State Department of Health to establish.
Recognition and welcome signs; allow for placement adjacent to state highways in unincorporated area of counties.
Delta State University; authorize to enter into a long-term lease for specified purposes.
Health Care Collaboration Act; create.
Vietnam Veterans Day in Mississippi; designate March 29th of each year as.
"State Representative Percy L. Maples Memorial Interchange"; designate certain interchange in George County as.
Urban Flood Control and Drainage Law; authorize special assessment on property benefited by projects.
Income tax; authorize first-time home buyers savings accounts and exclude contributions/distributions from gross income.
Passed the House · 15
Highways; require MDOT to install rumble strips along shoulders of newly constructed or resurfaced roadways.
Save the Rural Hospital Act; create.
Online voter registration; revise to allow for first-time voters to register through.
MS Telephone Solicitation Act; extend repealer on.
Child abuse; require CPS to notify applicable military installation family advocacy program in certain cases.
Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact; create.
Seat belts; require for all passengers.
Compulsory School Attendance Law; clarify attendance for students participating in preapproved authorized school activity.
Proclamation of a local emergency; allow president of county board of supervisors to declare.
Bo Diddley Memorial Highway; designate segment of I-55 in Pike County as.
Homestead exemption; provide additional exemption for certain persons 65 years of age or older or totally disabled.
Income tax; authorize a credit for employers who pay the cost of a qualified wellness program.
Bonds; authorize issuance for construction of a multipurpose building at the Greenville Higher Education Center/Mississippi Delta Community College.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; revise eligibility criteria for disabled veteran tag.
Public School Donation Tax Deduction and Dedicated Use Act; create.
In committee · 10
Divorce; to revise how child custody and maintenance can be agreed upon.
Jackson Metropolitan Area Airport Authority; repeal.
Chancery clerk; require to remove social security numbers from land transfer deeds.
Divorce; add domestic violence as a ground.
Bond fee, certain; remove imposition of for person who appeals a conviction and posts a bond conditioned for appearance.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with removal and demolition of certain dilapidated and blighted properties.
Bonds; authorize issuance for construction of building for School of Public Health at Jackson State University.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to assist JSU with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Program.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for improvements to Jackson Zoo.
MS Critical Needs School District Tax Credit Act of 2017; create.