Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Debra Gibbs
Sponsored
In committee17
Teachers' salaries; increase to southeastern average over five-year period.
Teachers' and teacher assistants' salaries; provide for $1,500.00 increase.
Absentee ballots; revise notary requirements for students enrolled in a college, university or community or junior college.
Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag; establish to recommend new state flag design.
School buses; require those purchased after July 1, 2020, to be equipped with seat belts and provide opt out provision.
School buses; require 20% of those purchased after July 1, 2020, to be equipped with seat belts.
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, 2020, to be equipped with seat belts.
Right to vote; restore automatically once a person has completed all sentencing requirements.
Charter school payments; require school districts to pay local funds due on a monthly basis.
Teachers; provide incentives for working in certain areas with critical shortages of.
Song; designate "Mississippi Beautiful" as a song for Mississippi, which may be sung by all Mississippians.
Minimum wage; establish and provide for annual cost-of-living increases.
State employees; provide for across-the-board increase in annual compensation for those with annual salary under $30,000.00.
Life estate; authorize owner to make changes to property without permission of remainderman beneficiaries.
Commission on Status of Women; reconstitute the membership of on July 1, 2020.
Joint tenants, tenants in common or coparcener; authorize to petition chancery court for greater ownership.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol officers and Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics officers; clarify salaries of.
Disaster Assistance Trust Fund; expand uses of and increase maximum amount that may be transferred to.
Financial institutions; authorize to delay a transaction upon good-faith belief that eligible person will be exploited.
Advocate Confidentiality Law; establish procedures for disclosure.
Appropriations; DFA for tourism and nonprofit art museum recovery.
Mississippi Tourism Recovery Fund and Mississippi Nonprofit Art Museums Recovery Fund; create.
State Flag; revise with a commission and require words "In God We Trust."
Passed the House · 18
Bonds; revise purposes for which bonds authorized for Town of Wesson may be used.
Daylight saving time; observe year-round if federal law is amended to allow it.
Memorial highways; designate.
Memorial Highway; designate U.S. Highway 45 in Alcorn County and Prentiss County as "Speaker William J. 'Billy' McCoy Memorial Highway."
Gifted education; require school districts to provide for students in Grades 7 and 8.
School mobile panic button program; require Department of Education to develop and implement in K-12 public schools.
Student club funds; clarify use and accounting practices by school districts.
ABC Division officers; compensation shall be determined by special plan approved by Personnel Board.
Teacher licensure; revise qualifications for candidates to enter an approved teacher education program.
Agencies, departments and institutions; require to report workforce monies received and how those monies were spent to the SWIB each year.
Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a District of Innovation.
Secure detention and state training school; revise conditions under which a child may be ordered to by court.
School athletic trainers; provide annual salary supplement for those acquiring national certification.
National board certification annual salary supplement; remove cap on number of nurses and speech-language pathologists eligible for.
Dept. of Agriculture; clarify use of security personnel to provide security services in state buildings under contract with DFA.
Armed Services Absentee Voting Law; expand definition of "absent voter" to include those working in federal waters of United States.
Inmate Welfare Fund; require DOC to expend unused portions of the fund on reentry purposes.
Public Service Commission; extend repealers and make certain revisions to.
In committee · 18
Case plans for inmates who committed violent offenses; require certain programs be placed within.
Starkville High School AP Government Class of 2019 Motor Voter Act; create to establish the procedure for the automatic registration of voters.
Medicaid; seek waiver for plan to expand eligibility with regional care organizations, known as "One Mississippi."
Medicaid; eligible pregnant women shall remain eligible for maternal care services for 12 months after end of pregnancy.
Counties and municipalities; may enter into interlocal agreement to allow municipal officers to cover the duties of deputies who attend the funeral of an officer.
United States Highway 49; designate segment from Hinds County to Coahoma County as an historic highway.
Civics; require State Board of Education to develop curriculum for public middle and high school students.
Community and junior colleges; expand workforce development partnerships.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with construction of a real-time crime prevention center.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with purchase of right-of-way maintenance equipment.
Private prisons that house state offenders; provide moratorium on the expansion of.
Appropriation; Hinds County for costs of construction of Segment 1A of the Hinds Parkway Road Project.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority with purchasing fire service equipment.
Appropriation; City of Jackson for costs of completing the renovation of Smith Park.
Appropriations; City of Jackson for costs of renovating Russell C. Davis Planetarium.
Appropriation; City of Jackson for costs of renovating old city library and relocating Welty Library to that site.
Hind County; authorize to pay per diem to volunteer members of certain county boards who serve the county.
Appropriation; Hinds County for costs of establishing a mental and behavioral health treatment court collaborative.