Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Gary V. Staples
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Emerging Crops Fund; provide for a separate loan program for agribusinesses engaged in poultry production.
Cathinone derivatives; include in Schedule I.
Perry County; authorize contribution to Community Development, Inc.
Vetoed · 1
Public Safety Verification and Enforcement Act; create.
Passed the House · 2
"Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act"; create.
U.S. Highway 78; designate certain segment of in Benton and Marshall Counties as "William 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway".
In committee · 23
Mississippi Accountability and Transparency Act; establish additional requirements for DFA's website on state spending.
Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act of 2011; create.
Commercial mobile radio service providers; require to identify county of primary use of its wireless customers.
Emergency communications districts; require identifying information for distribution of proceeds from emergency telephone charge.
Distinctive license tag; revise decals affixed to tag authorized for veterans.
MS Prison Industries; remove authority to sell or furnish goods or services to any private entity.
School Start Date Act of 2011; enact.
School term; reduce number of days in scholastic year to 170.
Charter schools; create new process for establishing.
Social studies and history curriculum; prohibit revisions to courses due to partisan and philosophical purposes.
Public schools; prohibit promotion to next grade of students not reading on grade level.
MS Telephone Solicitation Act; apply to business telephones.
Elections; allow additional time for candidates to qualify under certain circumstances.
Reckless driving; revise penalties to increase punishment when caused by wireless telephone.
Wrongful death; clarify who may bring action.
Workers' Compensation Law; revise.
Transparency in Private Attorney Contracts; enact.
Premises liability; restore open and obvious defense.
Open Primaries; establish.
Adequate education funds; require percent to be allotted to direct classroom instruction.
Transportation; prescribe form for property transfers regarding.
Medical expenses; limit recovery to amount actually paid or incurred by claimant.
Bonds; increase amount authorized for the Supplementary Rural Fire Truck Fund and the Rural Fire Truck Fund.