Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, Senate.
Sampson Jackson II
Sponsored
Became law1
Kemper County; authorize a contribution to Mississippi Community Development Empowerment, Inc.
In committee24
Income taxation; grant a tax credit for contributions to certain student aid programs.
Mississippi Prison Industries; prohibit state agencies from purchasing from business employing inmates of another state.
Economic development; MDA & MS Prison Industries to develop program on feasibility of prison labor to prevent plant closings.
Absentee ballots; allow all persons qualified to vote by absentee ballot to do so by mail.
Tenth Circuit District; create subdistrict and additional judge.
Landowners; compensated by state for certain diminution in property value.
Appropriation; Attorney General - Boys and Girls Clubs of America from tobacco funds; FY 2012.
Elections; qualified elector may vote absentee for any reason.
Election; authorize early voting.
Absentee ballot; require ballots to be sent automatically to persons 65 years of age or older upon written request.
Public property; authorize DFA to apply rent payments toward the purchase of real property.
State buildings/construction projects; shall be constructed under supervision of DFA.
Counties; maintain private roads used as Head Start turnarounds.
Public schools; require certain appropriate conduct by students.
Counties; authorize to acquire cell phones for Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks' officers.
Local system roads; allow portion of state aid allocated to counties to be used to retire debt for.
Board on Law Enforcement Standards and Training; revise qualification for certain officers.
Sixteenth section school land; limit rent increases on farm-residential land.
Appropriations; tobacco litigation funds, supplemental health insurance for law enforcement; FY2012.
Regional Alternative School Pilot Program (R.A.S.P.); authorize under Division of Youth Services.
School bus drivers; school districts may pay health insurance premium of retirees employed as school bus drivers.
Highways; require removal of trees along right-of-way that shade the highway preventing the melting of ice or snow.
Trusties who are authorized to accumulate additional earned time; revise.
Kemper County; authorize contributions to East Mississippi Community Development Empowerment, Inc.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
2011 First Extraordinary Session · Bonds; issue for Mississippi Industry Incentive Financing Revolving Fund and revise Mississippi Advantage Jobs Act.
All-terrain vehicles; require competency training and helmets under a certain age.
Blue Alert System; create.
"Mississippi Pharmacy Practice Act"; extend repealer on and make technical amendments.
Memorial highway; designate a certain segment of I-59 as "Mississippi Gold Star Memorial Highway."
Ad valorem school taxes; exempt publication requirement if no increase in ad valorem tax effort in dollars is proposed.
Feticide; revise killing or injury of an unborn child.
Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act; enact.
Urban renewal agencies; authorize certain municipal property to be conveyed to.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of - State Aid Road Construction, Office of.
Appropriation; Chiropractic Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Dental Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Funeral Services Board.
Appropriation; Massage Therapy, Board of.
Appropriation; Pharmacy, Board of.
Appropriation; Counselors, Board of Examiners for Licensed Professional.
Appropriation; Veterinary Examiners, Board of.
Lauderdale County; extend the repeal date on the Lauderdale County Tourism Commission.
Passed the Senate · 8
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers who are first-time homebuyers of a principal residence in this state.
Schedule I; expand definition of cathinone derivatives and synthetic cannabinoids.
Concealed weapons; authorize carrying without permit by all prosecutors and coroners.
Homeschooled students; to be tested for grade assignment prior to transfer into public school district.
Wildlife; regulate deer-breeding farms.
Driving; prohibit texting and revise punishment for no license.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as "William R. 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway."
Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; revise certain provisions of.
Out of committee · 1
Elections; increase fee paid by legislative candidates upon entering the race for party nominations.
In committee · 2
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum; establish commission to select site and employ director.
Birth certificate; major errors may be corrected by order of tribal court.