Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, House.
Gary Chism
Sponsored
Became law11
Children's Health Insurance Program; transfer administration of to Division of Medicaid.
Insurance Commissioner; revise requirement to examine certain entities from once every 3 years to 5 years.
Sales tax; exempt sales of utilities to churches.
Bail bondsmen; revise certain licensing laws under the authority of the Department of Insurance.
State Chief Assistant Deputy Fire Marshal; authorize position of.
State Health Insurance Management Board; revise to allow Commissioner of Insurance to be represented by his designee.
National Flood Insurance Program; revise laws regarding eligibility for.
Portable electronics insurance; require licensure of vendors to sell policies.
Deputy State Insurance Administrator; delete requirement that State Health Insurance Management Board must employ.
Surplus line insurance; exempt from premium tax any property risk written by DFA on behalf of State of Mississippi.
Lowndes County; authorize to contribute funds to United Way of Lowndes County.
Passed the House9
Property and Casualty Actuarial Opinion Act; delete repealer on.
Health insurance; provide for certain assignment of benefits by insured to health care providers.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Surplus lines insurance; provide that nonadmitted policy fee shall be set at 3%.
Comprehensive Health Insurance Risk Pool Association; increase membership of board of directors.
Comprehensive Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program; extend repealer on.
Health insurance policies; authorize Commissioner of Insurance to approve or disapprove premium rates.
State Liquefied Compressed Gas Board; revise laws regarding.
Surplus lines insurance producers; require to execute form promulgated by Commissioner of Insurance stating certain facts.
Out of committee4
State and School Employees' Health Ins. Plan; auth. board to impose premium differential based on behavioral risk factors.
Public Safety Verification and Enforcement Act; create.
Insurance adjusters; provide certain exemption to licensure requirement of.
MS Dept. of Employment Security; reenact provisions regulating unemployment and workforce training.
In committee15
Legal Tender Act; create.
Autopsy; allow State Fire Marshal to petition for after fire related deaths.
Health care providers; provide for a lien on certain third-party payment for services to patient or policyholder.
Transportation; provide exception to requirement that vehicles carrying certain loads must operate during daylight hours.
Lawsuits; plaintiff liable for defendant's costs if defendant prevails.
Lien; allow for hospitals against damages recovered by patient.
County superintendent of education; change from elected to appointed by school board in certain counties.
Sales tax; reduce rate on retail sales of motorcycles.
Reappraisal; local taxing units must publish certain information regarding to receive homestead exemption reimbursement.
County Board of Supervisors; authorize to pay salaries every two weeks.
Homestead exemption; increase.
Crimes with bail restrictions; specify and restrict such crimes.
MS Building Code Council; require to furnish report to the Legislature on standards for a statewide building code.
State health insurance; require same co-pay/deductible for prescription drugs whether obtained from retail pharmacy or by mail order.
Mississippi Consumer Choice in Uninsured Motorist Coverage Act; create.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Child Protection Act and Child Rape Protection Act; enact.
Mississippi Highway 30 Bypass; designate in Prentiss County and the City of Booneville as "F. Wade Lambert Memorial Highway."
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery; authorize additional cemeteries.
DUI; create child endangerment provision.
Gun permits; revise reciprocity.
Student grades; prohibit certain school administrators and district employees from influencing a change in.
MS Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program; create to provide dyslexic students with school choice.
Mississippi Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program; create.
Contractor; may receive copy of bond upon request.
Clay County; authorize to purchase certain real property for economic development purposes.
Passed the House · 5
Illegal immigration; strengthen enforcement provisions to prevent.
Income tax; increase credit for ad valorem tax paid on inventory.
Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act/Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act; create.
Vessel pilots; limit and regulate liability of.
Sales tax; reduce rate imposed on retail sales of boats, motorcycles and towable campers.
Out of committee · 3
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Workers' Compensation Law; revise.
Teacher Classroom and Disciplinary Control Act; create.
In committee · 28
Courts; prohibit applying foreign law.
Dialysis treatment; require facilities providing to maintain backup power supply for dialysis machines.
Administrative consolidation of school districts in certain counties; provide referendum on the question of.
Forestry product on 16th section land; authorize local school boards to enter into agreements to sell subject to certain approval.
Classroom supply funds; require annual allotment before November 1 to full-time and part-time teachers.
College Private Research Incentive Act; create.
State parole board; require to submit report to Governor regarding petition for pardon by person convicted of felony crime.
Armed robbery; provide for minimum prison sentence of 10 years.
County boards of supervisors; authorize to use county facilities for temporary housing of county residents.
Traffic safety violator course; provide that it may be an Internet course.
Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act of 2012; create.
Katie's Law; require DNA testing for all felony arrests.
School vouchers; authorize State Department of Education to issue under the MS School Choice Scholarship Program.
Tax levy to support school districts; authorize levying authority to veto school board request for increase up to seven percent.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.
Controlled substances; felony to bring into state, county or municipal facility.
Parole; require offender serve at least 1/3 of sentence and that commissioner recommend parole before offender is eligible for.
Ad Valorem taxes; delete school board's authority to increase without referendum approval.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012; enact to establish new process for creating.
Public assistance benefits; combined incomes of all persons in same household used to determine eligibility for.
Bad check law; revise.
Contractors; prohibit knowing misapplication of construction payments and prescribes penalties for violation.
State agency personnel; remove from certain State Personnel Board procedures for two years.
Ad valorem taxation; exempt pollution control equipment mandated by federal or state law.
Corporation franchise tax; phase out effective January 1, 2017.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; create and provide certain tax incentives for qualified businesses located in.
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers that employ persons convicted of felony offenses.