Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, House.
Jarvis Dortch
Sponsored
In committee30
Community schools; authorize school districts that provide services through the use of to receive additional 10% MAEP allocation.
Charter schools; require MAEP funds to be transferred to student's home school district when student disenrolls.
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 teachers at level of licensed teachers.
"Small Town Teacher Tax Credit Act"; create to authorize an income tax credit to certain licensed teachers.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with sidewalk improvements.
Medicaid; seek waiver for plan to expand eligibility with regional care organizations, known as "One Mississippi."
Insurance; require certain consumer information and notice and availability of mediation regarding balance billing.
Income tax; provide a credit for taxpayers who claim a federal earned income tax credit.
Medicaid; eligible pregnant women shall remain eligible for maternal care services for 12 months after end of pregnancy.
Prescription drugs; require Attorney General to compile certain lists of those essential for treating diabetes and costs of.
Income tax; authorize a credit for cost of new alternative fueling infrastructure.
Income tax; authorize credit for certain child care expenses, child care centers and child care teachers and directors.
Electric/hybrid vehicle tax; repeal sections of law authorizing.
State Employee Loan Program; create.
Contraceptives; require insurers, Medicaid and the State Health Plan to cover without cost sharing.
Income tax; revise provisions regarding net income of nonresidents, certain definitions and certain business deductions.
Nonlicensed teachers; authorize school districts to employ certain number to fill core subject area positions.
Income and sales tax; job tax credit for supermarkets in economically distressed communities, sales tax exemption for materials.
SNAP recipients; not required to cooperate with child support enforcement to receive benefits.
TANF Funds; require Department of Human Services to submit report to Legislature if certain allocated funds are not used.
TANF recipients; establish program to provide wage subsidies to employers who hire.
TANF program; PEER Committee shall conduct an annual review of expenditures of TANF funds.
TANF; require Department of Human Services to allocate maximum amount allowable under federal law to child care services.
TANF; increase maximum monthly amount of benefits.
Public school infrastructure audit; require MSU School of Architecture to conduct under agreement with MDE and DFA.
Capitol Complex Improvement District Project Fund; revise purposes for which certain monies may be used.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Town of Utica with repairs to natural gas lines.
Appropriation; State Auditor for forensic audit of DHS's TANF expenditures during certain period.
City of Jackson; authorize to create land banks to address blighted properties more efficiently within the city.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Appropriation; MDE for Mississippi Broadband Availability Act purposes.
Appropriation; DFA for a cooperative and broadband provider grant program funds.
Vetoed · 1
Appropriation; several agencies for addressing the public health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Passed the House · 3
Gifted education; require school districts to provide for students in Grades 7 and 8.
Teacher licensure; revise qualifications for candidates to enter an approved teacher education program.
Community schools; authorize implementation under the administration of a District of Innovation.
In committee · 54
Early voting; authorize.
State employee personal and major medical leave; revise definition of "catastrophe injury or illness" to include mental illness for the purpose of the donation of.
"Our Children's Health Impacts Our Future Law"; enact to require parental acknowledgement of notice upon student enrollment.
Starkville High School AP Government Class of 2019 Motor Voter Act; create to establish the procedure for the automatic registration of voters.
Amusement rides; provide inspection and incident reporting requirements for.
MAEP; determine cost of using average daily membership (ADM) in lieu of ADA with 95% threshold attendance trigger.
Active shooter training; require school districts employees to attend every three years.
Teacher licensure; authorize issuance to certain individuals with foreign certification on reciprocity with documentation.
Health care and education shortage assistance program; establish to help attract professionals to work in certain counties.
Suffrage; restore to all upon meeting all terms and conditions of sentence.
Child care facilities; require licensing agency to disclose names of persons filing complaints against.
Repealer on one cent special sales tax on gross proceeds/income of businesses in cities with population of 150,000 or more.
Land banks; authorize counties and municipalities to create to convert certain property to productive use.
Urban renewal agency commission; revise composition of.
Child Care Advisory Council; require child care providers to recommend names of persons to serve on.
Department of Health; limit any increase in fees by to not more than five percent.
Department of Human Services; require a board of directors to be created within.
Unemployment compensation; revise weekly benefit amount for.
State agencies; prohibit disclosure of identifying information received from program applicants.
Mississippi Benefit Corporation Act; create.
Parole; change length of sentence to be served before offenders may request judicial recommendation of.
State agencies; prohibit disclosure of identifying information received from program applicants.
Mandatory 85% sentencing rule; repeal.
Habitual offender law; authorize parole eligibility if offender served 10 years of a sentence of 40 years or more.
Commutation of sentences; require for certain nonviolent offenders.
Habitual Offender Law; exclude drug and nonviolent offenders from.
Child care facilities; require licensing agency to disclose names of persons filing complaints against.
Student Athlete Bill of Rights; enact.
State flag; change design to that of the Magnolia flag.
Minimum Wage; establish at $10.00 and set requirements for exemptions and overtime.
Department of Health; limit any increase in fees by and revise who can be appointed to child care advisory council by state Health Officer.
Department of Human Services; require a board of directors to be created within.
Parole eligibility; revise for certain offenses and require Parole Board hearing before release of certain inmates.
United States Highway 49; designate segment from Hinds County to Coahoma County as an historic highway.
Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; create.
IHL Board; dissolve and provide for independent university boards of trustees.
Optometry; State Board of Optometry shall define the practice of and not exclude certain procedures.
Employee wages; require to be paid equally for women and men.
Equal pay for equal work; require for employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
Critical teacher shortage; include those employed in certain school districts who hold National Board Certification as eligible for salary supplement.
Inmate Release Reform; revise provisions regulating sentencing and release of those convicted of certain violations.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with construction of a real-time crime prevention center.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Jackson with purchase of right-of-way maintenance equipment.
Private prisons that house state offenders; provide moratorium on the expansion of.
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; authorize issuance to supporters of former Hinds Agricultural High School and Utica Junior College.
Hinds County; authorize to pay per diem to volunteer members of certain county boards who serve the county.
Appropriation; Hinds County for costs of construction of Segment 1A of the Hinds Parkway Road Project.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist the Jackson Municipal Airport Authority with purchasing fire service equipment.
Appropriation; City of Jackson for costs of completing the renovation of Smith Park.
Appropriations; City of Jackson for costs of completing Phase II of renovation of Thalia Mara Hall.
Appropriations; City of Jackson for costs of renovating Russell C. Davis Planetarium.
Appropriation; City of Jackson for costs of renovating old city library and relocating Welty Library to that site.
Hind County; authorize to pay per diem to volunteer members of certain county boards who serve the county.
Appropriation; Hinds County for costs of establishing a mental and behavioral health treatment court collaborative.