Bills in the 2020 Regular Session, Senate.
Sally Doty
Sponsored
Became law10
Motor vehicles; provide that ad valorem tax receipts shall not specify legislative session in relation to tag credit.
PSC; extend repealers, remove Motor Carrier Law references, treat renewable purchases like other power purchases.
Foreign limited liability companies; revise administrative revocation.
Community public water systems; require continuing education for board members.
Small estates; clarify muniment of title and affidavit of succession.
Uniform Probate and Trust codes; enact portions.
Guardianships and conservatorships; revise GAP Act.
Paternity; authorize written declaration to establish.
Suffrage for Marty Langley.
Mississippi Back-to-Business Liability Assurance and Health Care Emergency Response Liability Protection Act; create.
Passed the Senate12
Historic structure tax credit; extend deadline for eligibility.
Veterans; create the Mississippi Veterans Honor Medal Program.
Public official corruption; prosecution by Attorney General upon request of the State Auditor.
Equal pay for equal work; require for employees of opposite sex in the same work establishment.
Law enforcement officers and firefighters; increase the death benefits payable to.
Advocate confidentiality law; protect certain information held by rape crisis and domestic violence programs.
Highways; require Dept. of Transportation to erect signs directing motorists to Lynyrd Skynyrd Monument in Pike County.
Appellate judges and justices; revise geographical limitation on expense allowance for.
Withholding orders for child support; shall be in compliance with federal Consumer Protection Act.
Controlled substance prescriptions; require electronic prescribing.
Critical infrastructure; define crimes of impeding and trespassing against.
Law enforcement officers; immunity under certain circumstances.
Out of committee5
Motorcycles; allow to proceed only in limited circumstances.
Registered sex offender; disqualified from serving as volunteer firefighter.
Liens; revise provisions providing for an owner's lien on personal property in self-storage facilities.
Mississippi Open Account Statute; define "open account" and require account creditor to send the demand by certain delivery methods.
GAP Act; revise transition and minor settlement provisions for guardianships and conservatorships.
In committee16
Telecommunications Fraud Prevention and Utility Infrastructure Protection Act; enact.
Medicaid reimbursement; exempt community mental health centers from the 5% reduction in rates of reimbursement to providers.
Intimate visual material; create civil and criminal liability for unlawful disclosure or promotion of.
Income tax; school boards may certify early learning collaboratives as approved for purposes of the program support contribution credit.
Breastfeeding professionals; provide for licensure of by State Department of Health.
Autopsies; provide for confidentiality of photographs and video and audio recordings with exceptions.
Mississippi Human Trafficking Act; add additional conduct that constitutes coercion.
First-degree murder; include unlawful distribution of controlled substances when the distribution is proximate cause of death.
Radar; authorize sheriff and deputy sheriffs to use on county roads to enforce speed limits.
Teachers, retired; authorize certain to be employed full time and continue receiving retirement allowance.
MDHS fraud investigators; shall be considered law enforcement officers.
Dept. of Human Services and Dept. of Child Protection Services; extend repealers on exemptions from certain agency regulations.
Mississippi Motor Vehicle Commission Law; revise.
Income tax; provide credit for caregivers.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Lawrence County in paying costs of new frontage road construction.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist City of Brookhaven in paying costs of reconstruction of Brookway Boulevard segment.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Secretary of State's official seal; include the phrase "In God We Trust" at the bottom.
Real estate appraisers, brokers and salespeople; establish statute of limitations for civil actions.
Equity in Distance Learning Act; enact.
Passed the Senate · 4
Teachers' salaries; provide for increase.
Intervention courts; technical corrections.
Child advocacy centers; immunity from civil liability.
Local governmental entities and school districts; authorize grant of admin leave with pay in certain disasters or emergencies.
In committee · 2
Child Protection Services; require disclosure of reporter in cases of false abuse and neglect reports.
Pharmacists; revise regulation of pharmacy benefit managers.