Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, Senate.
Nolan Mettetal
Sponsored
Passed the Senate2
Excavations near underground utility facilities; require facilities to be installed with electronic locating method.
Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act; create.
In committee13
Highways; add certain segment of MS 4 to immediate needs priority for upgrade.
Bonds; issue g.o. bonds for two community group homes for the Department of Mental Health.
Appropriation; Dept. of Mental Health for constructing two intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded; FY2010.
Noise abatement; revise offense of noise disturbance.
Licensed school employees; allow use of personal leave near holiday if summoned by court.
Motor vehicles; authorize the operation of low-speed electric vehicles on certain public roads.
Additional highways; reconstruct a portion of Highway 315.
Children; prohibit buying and selling of.
Runoff elections of election commissioner candidates; revise when occur.
Appropriations; College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University for 10 additional in-state students.
MS Telephone Solicitation Act; revise provisions and increase civil penalty.
Public Service Commission; may transfer portion of certificated area to adjacent utility upon certain findings.
Public Service Commission; remove motor carrier provisions/bring forward sections.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Lightweight truss construction identification; require for fire fighter safety.
Freedom to Farm Act; include honeybee production under definition of agricultural operations.
Failing schools and school districts; enact "Children First Act of 2009."
Statewide monetary assessments; clarify and revise.
Vetoed · 1
Job tax credit; authorize for cut and sew jobs in the upholstered household furniture manufacturing industry.
Passed the Senate · 4
Concealed weapons; remove prohibition against carrying in a public park.
School students with asthma; require all school districts to take certain actions relating to.
Bonds; increase amount authorized for the Supplementary Rural Fire Truck Fund and the Rural Fire Truck Fund.
Bonds; auth. g.o. bonds for DFA improvements at State Fire Academy & Local System Bridge Replacement & Rehab. Fund.
In committee · 4
2009 First Extraordinary Session · Eminent domain; restrict to direct public use.
Mississippi "Country Music Trail" program and historical markers; MDA Division of Tourism to establish.
Sale or distribution of novelty lighters; prohibit and provide criminal penalties for.
Bonds; authorize issuance for certain state highway and infrastructure projects.