Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, Senate.
Sampson Jackson II
Sponsored
Became law7
Corrections; extend repeal date on the Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act.
Corrections; extend repeal date for Parole Board.
Corrections; extend repeal date on state offenders serving sentences in county jails.
Corrections; extend repeal date on intensive home supervision programs and electronic home detention.
Bedridden nonviolent state offenders; authorize Commissioner of Corrections to place on conditional medical release.
Advance health-care directives; MDOC may offer such forms to inmates and may act as guardian for certain inmates.
Kemper County; authorize a contribution to Mississippi Community Development Empowerment, Inc.
Passed the Senate8
Corrections; extend repeal date on parole supervision fees.
Corrections; reenact and extend repealer on general inmate authority of the Department of Corrections.
Department of Corrections; revise the amount of contracts that must be approved by the Public Procurement Review Board.
Expunction; provide procedure for certain felonies of persons under 21 years of age at the time of conviction.
Male death row inmates; may be housed at appropriate maximum security facility instead of State Penitentiary at Parchman.
Bolivar County Regional Correctional Facility; reenact and extend repealer on.
Walnut Grove Correctional Facility; authorize any state offender to be housed at.
Regimented inmate discipline program at Walnut Grove Correctional Facility; repeal section of law on.
Out of committee2
Corrections; trusties convicted of certain drug crimes eligible for additional earned time.
Incarceration cost report; PEER to submit biennially/clarify cost-per-day index.
In committee39
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.
Landowners; compensated by state for certain diminution in property value.
Absentee ballot; require ballots to be sent automatically to persons 65 years of age or older upon written request.
Public schools; require certain appropriate conduct by students.
Local system roads; allow portion of state aid allocated to counties to be used to retire debt for.
Mississippi Prison Industries; prohibit state agencies from purchasing from business employing inmates of another state.
Tenth Circuit District; create subdistrict and additional judge.
State buildings/construction projects; shall be constructed under supervision of DFA.
Economic development; MDA and 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.
Appropriation; Attorney General - Boys and Girls Clubs of America from tobacco funds; FY2013.
Elections; qualified elector may vote absentee for any reason.
Board on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Training; revise qualification for certain officers.
Election; authorize early voting.
Sixteenth section school land; limit rent increases on farm-residential land.
Appropriations; tobacco litigation funds, supplemental health insurance for law enforcement; FY2013.
Income taxation; grant a tax credit for contributions to certain student aid programs.
Counties; authorize to acquire cell phones for Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks' officers.
Counties; maintain private roads used as Head Start turnarounds.
Highways; require removal of trees along right-of-way that shade the highway preventing the melting of ice or snow.
Division of Workers' Compensation, Office of the Governor; create.
Income and sales tax liability; revise method of collecting from public officers or employees.
Inmate Welfare Fund; abolish and allocate remaining funds.
Inmate Welfare Fund; establish as special fund/inmates' family member to serve on IWF Committee/IWFC must establish certain rules.
Legislative subpoenas; clarify method of enforcement and protective court orders.
Special assessments deposited into State General Fund; clarify use of revenues and expenditures.
Workers' Compensation Commission; change composition and jurisdiction.
Medicaid Managed Care Program; direct PEER Committee to make report on.
Inmate Welfare Fund Committee; inmate's family member to serve on/require to establish rules on procedures and expenditures.
Deer; authorize and regulate breeding of farm-raised white-tailed deer.
Trusty status offenders; revise crimes that make offenders eligible for additional earned time.
Revocation of offender's earned-release supervision; allow time spent on supervision before revocation to be applied to sentence.
Parole Board; require to conduct video-teleconference parole hearings from main office.
Intensive supervision program; offenders to receive credit for time spent in ISP before removal & extend repeal date for the program.
Any time spent by offenders under field supervision of the Community Services Division of DOC; require credit toward sentences of.
Parole; offenders to receive credit on original sentence for time served on parole prior to revocation.
Hob Bryan Lawn; name the green space between Carroll Gartin Justice Building and Sillers Building in honor of Senator Bryan.
Transportation; Direct MDOT to straighten curve on MS Highway 397 in Kemper County.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as William R. "Bill" Minor Memorial Highway.
Scholarship funding; modify the FY2012 IHL appropriation bill to provide additional special funds for the Critical Needs Scholarship Fund.
Appropriation; Corrections, Department of.
Appropriation; Emergency Management Agency.
Appropriation; Military Department.
Appropriation; Public Safety, Department of.
Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Board.
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.
Passed the Senate · 2
Ad valorem taxes; authorize counties and municipalities to exempt vehicles of military personnel who receive eminent danger pay.
Municipal and county law enforcement officer; allow spouse of officer killed in the line of duty to purchase officer's sidearm.
In committee · 11
Official Mississippi state song; authorize two state songs.
Habitual offender; expunged offenses not to count towards.
Alcohol-free motor fuels; ensure the availability of.
Appropriations; Mississippi Department of Health, Sunflower County Prevention of Teen Pregnancy Pilot Program.
Individual development accounts; authorize for certain low-income individuals.
Abstinence-plus sex education as required curriculum in public schools; provide for.
Disparity study; require MDA to file copies with the Legislature by not later than December 31, 2012.
Lauderdale County; authorize to fund chaplaincy program of the detention facility from revenue of inmate phone service.
Bonds; authorize to assist in the establishment of the GRAMMY Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi.
Bonds; authorize for the Tammy Wynette Legacy Park Center.
Bonds; authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Marty Stuart Center and Congress of Country Music Hall.