Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, Senate.
Sally Doty
Sponsored
Became law6
Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Residency Program; include psychiatry students.
Sex offenders; employers must notify parent or guardian of certain minors who come in contact with registered employee.
Mississippi School of the Arts; provide for administration and clarify employee hiring procedures.
MS Gulf Coast Region Utility Board; extend repealer on.
Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act; conform to federal law and revise penalties.
Mississippi Telephone Solicitation Act; revise to include text messages and solicitations for charitable contributions.
Passed the Senate5
Advocate confidentiality law; protect certain information held by rape crisis and domestic violence programs.
Intimate visual material; create civil and criminal liability for unlawful disclosure or promotion of.
Veterans; create the Mississippi Veterans Honor Medal Program.
Voyeurism; prescribe criminal penalties for conviction.
Critical infrastructure; define crimes of impeding and trespassing against.
Out of committee1
Opioid Crisis Intervention Act; create.
In committee21
Mississippi Department of Human Services GEN+ Act; enact.
Divorce; bona fide separation as a ground for.
Absentee voting; may be conducted by voting machine if clerk and board of supervisors approve.
Sixteenth Section School Land Principal Fund; authorize school districts to invest in Mississippi G.O. or municipal bonds.
Teachers, retired; authorize certain to be employed full time and continue receiving retirement allowance.
Radar; authorize sheriff and deputy sheriffs to use on county roads to enforce speed limits.
Domesticated dog and cat cruelty; revise.
Income tax; school boards may certify early learning collaboratives as approved for purposes of the program support contribution credit.
Lactation professionals; authorize State Department of Health to license.
Revised Mississippi Law on Notarial Acts; create and repeal existing statutes on notaries public.
Wrongful conviction; revise terms of payment for.
Rural Education Development Initiative (REDI); SBE develop accountability rating and support for rural schools.
Private project construction bonds; provide regulation of.
Motorcycles; allow to proceed through red light if green light is not triggered.
State Oil and Gas Board; exempt from MS Budget Transparency and Simplification Act and State Personnel Board procedures.
Drug courts; become problem-solving courts.
MS Motor Vehicle Commission Law; prohibit new dealers from being required to make certain renovations and require compensation for recall repairs.
Sex offender registration; require homeless offenders to provide specific description of place of residence.
Equal pay for equal work; require for employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
Absentee voting by mail; change notarization requirements for ballots submitted by certain college students.
Mississippi Broadband Enabling Act; create.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Teachers' salaries; provide for $1,500.00 increase.
GAP (Guard and Protect vulnerable children and adults) Act; revise guardianship and conservatorship laws.
Landowners Protection Act; create.
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property or services to the Junior League of Jackson.
Passed the Senate · 1
Motorcycles and bicycles; allow to proceed through red light if green light is not triggered.
In committee · 2
Earned-release supervision; Parole Board to approve before offender is released on.
Child advocacy centers; immunity from civil liability.