Bills in the 2018 Regular Session, House.
Jarvis Dortch
Sponsored
In committee14
"Small Town Teacher Tax Credit Act"; create to authorize an income tax credit to certain licensed teachers.
Insurance; require certain consumer information and notice and availability of mediation regarding balance billing.
Nursing; delete requirement that advanced practice registered nurses have collaborative relationship with physician.
Medicaid; require Governor and Division of Medicaid to negotiate to obtain federal waiver to expand Medicaid coverage.
Nurse-Family Partnership Pilot Program; require to be established and funded through TANF funds.
Assistant Teacher Elevated Salary Waiver Program; enact to compensate eligible assistant teacher at level of licensed teachers.
Income and sales tax; job tax credit for supermarkets in economically distressed communities, sales tax exemption for materials.
Income tax; authorize a credit for cost of new alternative fueling infrastructure.
Prescription drugs; require Attorney General to compile certain lists of those essential for treating diabetes and costs of.
Medicaid; provide coverage for certain children if federal authority or funding for CHIP is terminated.
Income tax; authorize credit for certain child care expenses, child care centers and child care teachers and directors.
Contraceptives; require insurers, Medicaid and the State Health Plan to cover without cost sharing.
Online voter registration; revise to allow for first-time voters to register through.
Bonds; authorize issuance for Capitol Complex Improvement District and City of Jackson projects.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
City of Jackson; extend the repeal date on the Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau and the tax that supports it.
Passed the House · 1
Bonds and grants; authorize to assist the Rank-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District flood control project.
In committee · 13
2018 First Extraordinary Session · Taxpayer Pay Raise Act; freeze decreases in income and franchise tax rates and freeze increase in federal employment tax deductions.
State holidays; designate the third Monday of January as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday and designate the fourth Monday of January as Robert E. Lee's birthday.
No Gag Rule on Pharmacists Act; create.
Smart State Act; create.
Teachers salaries; provide for $4,000.00 increase over four years at $1,000.00/year beginning with the 2018-2019 term.
End-of-course assessments; remove mandatory requirement of passing score as a condition of graduation.
Health insurance policies; delete age limitation on requirement to provide autism-related coverage.
Teachers' salary; implement a five-year phase in to increase to the southeastern average.
Mississippi Delta Alternative Teacher Licensure Program; create to alleviate teacher shortage in Delta Region.
Imposition of special 1 cent sales tax on gross proceeds of sales or gross income for businesses in municipality with pop. of 150,000; remove repealer on.
Equal pay for equal work; require for employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
Minimum wage; establish at $10.10 per hour.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson in making repairs and improvements to water and sewer systems.