Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, House.
Greg Snowden
Sponsored
Became law7
Southern Arts & Entertainment Center; conform law to center's name change of "Mississippi Arts & Entertainment Center."
Community colleges; provide for optional out-of-state waiver policy to be determined by board of each college.
Guardian of the person; revise provisions regarding notice to creditors.
Real estate; allow scrivener's affidavits to correct errors in real estate instruments.
Truth in Sentencing Task Force; create.
S.A.F.E. Mortgage Act; violation of limitation on owner financing of residential mortgage loans will not affect title.
Lauderdale County; authorize to fund Chaplaincy Program of the detention facility from revenue of inmate phone service.
Passed the House8
Adoption; revise home study and residency requirements.
Partition of property; revise method of appointing freeholders.
Bailiffs; authorize to administer oaths in court.
Public purchasing; allow consideration that a bidder has a local presence in determining best value.
Real property; clarify certain required identifying information for instruments presented to the chancery clerk for recording.
Mental Health; allow board to sell 3 buildings at East MS State Hospital and lease them back by lease-purchase.
State Auditor; authorize to conduct performance audits of state-funded economic development projects.
Gaming; revise salary of chair of athletic commission so that salary of secretary may not exceed that of chair.
Out of committee1
Public purchasing; allow consideration that a bidder has a local presence in determining best value.
In committee9
Community colleges; enact uniform rules for the sale or disposal of personal property owned by the community college.
University and colleges; clarify fees are not total tuition regarding out-of-state students.
School districts; require to adopt a prepared intervention policy before the 2014-2015 school year.
Electronic citations; allow for traffic, misdemeanor and other citations.
Eminent domain; require binding arbitration.
Distinctive license tag; bring forward law authorizing issuance to persons on active duty with United States Marine Corps.
Retirement; earned compensation of member of the Supreme Court of Appeals includes all remuneration except mileage.
Ad valorem tax; authorize partial exemption for agricultural land that is converted to a residential use.
Municipalities; revise provisions regarding expense of cleaning menaced private property by.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
DUI; revise use of ignition-interlock device.
Mississippi Highway 15; designate certain bridge in Chickasaw County as the "Representative William E. 'Billy' Bowles Memorial Bridge".
Motor vehicles; make unlawful to sell without title and registration in name of owner unless dealer.
Passed the House · 1
Bonds; authorize issuance for road improvements in oil producing counties & create income tax credit for new oil production jobs.
Out of committee · 1
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to assist Rail Authority of East Mississippi with certain projects.