Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Gary Chism
Sponsored
Became law8
Reappraisal; local taxing units must publish certain information regarding to receive homestead exemption reimbursement.
Commissioner of Insurance; authorize to employ persons with specialized skills needed to fulfill his official duties.
Insurance; revise requirements of form for experience refund calculations.
Health insurance; require insurer to honor assignment of benefits for a year or until insured revokes.
Health insurance; allow Commissioner of Insurance to disapprove certain policy forms, amendatory riders or endorsements.
Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act; create.
State and School Employees Health Insurance Plan; prohibit from restricting covered employee from assigning benefits to provider.
Lowndes County; make various revisions to its reserve and trust fund.
Passed the House10
MS Charter School Authorizer Board; provide protection from civil liability under the MS Tort Claims Act.
West Point Consolidated School District; designate as a countywide municipal separate school district upon consolidated reorganization.
Texting; prohibit any motor vehicle operator age 18 or younger from while driving.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Insurance Benefits Roofing Repair Consumer Protection Act; create.
Health insurance; prohibit policies from denying prescription drugs based solely on network distinctions of provider.
Health insurance policies; payment and reimbursement to state's academic medical center shall be at a comparable rate.
Vision insurance; prohibit provider contracts from establishing or limiting fees for noncovered services.
Health insurance; revise when policies must include coverage for mental illness.
State Uniform Construction Code; adopt certain nationally recognized codes and standards as.
Out of committee4
Sales tax; reduce rate on retail sales of motorcycles.
Homestead exemption; increase.
Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act; create.
Mississippi Patient Protection Act of 2014; enact.
In committee16
Bail; provide restrictions.
Distinctive license tag; reauthorize issuance for public junior colleges and community colleges.
School board members; revise manner of compensation of for work done in furtherance of regular board meetings.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Epinephrine; authorize school districts and certain entities to permit the storage and supply of for administration in emergencies.
Health insurance exchange; authorize Commissioner of Insurance to regulate navigators for.
Mississippi Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act; conform to NAIC model law.
Fire insurance policies; increase tax on gross premium receipts for fire marshal and academy expenses.
Hunting license; authorize issuance to nonresident of adjoining Mississippi counties at resident rate and designation.
Mississippi Fire Prevention Code; revise certain provisions regarding.
Homestead exemption; increase for totally disabled veterans.
Physician; require health care facilities & managed care organizations to provide fair process before adverse actions affecting.
Mississippi Telephone Solicitation Act; provide that online pharmacies are not exempt from.
Labor unions; prohibit from mass picketing a residence or place of business.
Law Enforcement Officers Death/Disability Benefits Trust Fund; expand coverage to include emergency mgt. personnel and increase benefits.
Income tax; authorize a credit for employers who pay the cost of a qualified wellness program.
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Weapons; clarify state preemption of local ordinances.
Memorial highways; designate segment in Clay County as the "Representative David Gibbs Memorial Highway".
Homestead exemption; increase for totally disabled veterans and extend to unremarried surviving spouse of such veterans.
Medicaid; establish Long-term Care Partnership Program within division.
Rights of individual's with a terminal condition; require payment of health insurance and Medicaid benefits.
State Auditor; authorize to conduct audits of state-funded economic development projects.
Abortion; prohibit performing at or after 20 weeks.
Law Enforcement Officers Death/Disability Benefits Trust Fund; expand coverage to include emergency management personnel & increase benefit.
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Earned time allowances; prohibit certain inmates from obtaining.
Uniform hospital claims form; Insurance Commissioner develop to use for all hospital services reimbursement claims.
Highway; designate U.S. Highway 61 as "Military Order of the Purple Heart Trail."
Sales tax; exempt certain sales of nonperishable foods, certain other sales and livestock admission and parking.
Personal Service Contract Review Board; revise composition of and remove exemption of certain contracts from board review.
Duplicate license; prohibit public bodies from requiring licensees to appear in person to receive.
Insurance; remove certain restrictions on political subdivisions to qualify as self-insurer.
Law enforcement officers; sidearm issued to officer killed in line of duty may be purchased by family.
Gale Stauffer, Jr. and Joseph Maher Law Enforcement Act of 2014; create.
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Crimes; clarify that burglary is a violent crime.
Parole; require offender serve at least 1/3 of sentence and that commissioner recommend parole before offender is eligible for.
Habitual offender; no plea bargaining for violent offenders.
Real property owners; revise standard of care owed to guests and invitees.
Firearm Protection Act; enact.
CPR/AED; require to be included in physical education curriculum as a requirement for graduation.
School choice; establish opportunity scholarships and open enrollment for public school students.
Traffic safety violator course; provide that it may be an Internet course.
School boards; elect all at presidential election for four-year terms.
School district superintendents; require all to be appointed beginning in 2016.
Dyslexia education; require instruction in for licensure as educator or administrator.
Voter Assistance; revise how an elector may receive and who can provide such to an elector.
Appropriations, additional; Administrative Office of Courts to restore full funding of drug courts.
Mississippi Physician Shield Act; create.
Medicaid; provide civil immunity to physician Medicaid providers for services provided to Medicaid recipients.
Pregnancy; provide crime of child abuse for women using illegal drugs during.
Administrative procedures act; revise to allow small business to have streamlined adjudicatory proceeding.
Guns; prohibit confiscation during natural disasters.
Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters Death Benefits Fund; increase benefit and funding for.
Gas severance tax; include carbon dioxide within definition of gas and remove certain exemptions.
City of Starkville; extend repeal date on economic development, tourism/convention tax.