Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
D. Stephen Holland
Sponsored
Became law7
Social workers and marriage and family therapists; reenact and revise licensure laws and extend repealer on.
Nursing home administrators licensure law; revise educational and experience requirements and complaint procedure.
Perpetual care cemeteries; provide for appointment of maintenance committee for under certain circumstances.
CON; provide for direct appeals to Supreme Court and for expedited review for certain expenditures.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Lee County; authorize contribution to the Sanctuary Hospice House.
Vetoed2
School influenza vaccination program; Health Dept apply for federal grants.
Council on Combating Obesity in Mississippi; create.
Passed the House8
Personal care homes; revise certain licensure provisions for.
Psychologists; make various changes to licensure law and delete repealers on sections.
Medicaid; revise certain provisions regarding hearings on eligibility claims.
Vulnerable persons; increase fine for failure to report abuse or neglect of patient or resident of care facility.
State Medical Examiner; revise certain provisions relating to.
Prescription drugs; health coverage plans must allow physician to override plan restrictions on under certain circumstances.
Mental Health Reform Act; enact.
Health insurance claims; revise reciprocal time limitations for audits of claims made by Division of Medicaid.
Out of committee2
Preneed contracts; allow naming of substitute provider at any time, and require all to be funded by insurance beginning 7-1-13.
Funeral Service Practice Licensure Law; bring forward for purposes of amendment.
In committee41
Wills; revocation upon divorce or annulment.
"Mississippi Song"; designate as the official state song for the State of Mississippi.
Ad valorem tax; require tax collector to provide notice to owner before advertising land for which taxes have not been paid.
Motor vehicle inspection fees; increase for one year to provide additional funds for Highway Patrol.
Personal care homes; delete limitation on number of certain persons allowed to continue residing in.
Charity or nonprofit corporation; has insurable interest in life of insured where it is owner and beneficiary of policy.
Medicaid; create Medicaid Commission to administer and abolish Division of Medicaid.
Medicaid; regional mental health centers not required to use local matching funds to receive reimbursement.
District attorney; allow additional employees without limitation of funds.
Personal care homes; Department of Mental Health shall license and regulate certain together with Department of Health.
Preneed Cemetery and Funeral Registration Act; bring forward sections for amendment.
Income tax; authorize adjustment to gross income for costs paid for textbooks and supplies for home schooled students.
Distinctive license tag; authorize issuance to supporters of Mississippi filmmakers.
Electric power associations; provide jurisdiction of right-of-way matters to be under PSC.
Department of Corrections; require release of offender's medical records to certain individual if certain conditions met.
Bonds; increase amount that may be issued for the Local Governments and Rural Water Systems Improvements Revolving Loan Fund.
Medicaid; provide for an optional arbitration hearing for a provider to resolve a dispute regarding a reimbursement decision.
Emergency medical services and statewide trauma care system; reenact and extend repealer on certain provisions regarding.
Nursing; delete requirement that advanced practice nurses must practice within collaborative relationship with a physician.
Medicaid; direct the division to establish a medical home program.
District attorney; authorize supplement for salary of.
Deceased persons; establish rights of others to control disposition of remains of.
CON; suspend statutory restrictions on issuance of for certain health care facilities until July 1, 2012.
CON; exempt construction of ICF-MR facility on leased or transferred Columbia Training School property from requirement for issuance of.
Child custody, require court hearing before custodial parent may remove the child from the state.
Bastardy; change terminology in code.
Burn Center; repeal requirement for UMMC to establish and provide for reimbursement for certain other burn centers.
Hospitals; Department of Health may authorize to operate off-campus emergency departments.
State Board of Health; authorize to increase various licensure and regulatory fees.
Medicaid; art therapy services shall be reimbursable under.
Pharmacy Practice Act; reenact and extend repealer on and make various changes to.
Ambulance provider; must be allowed to transport patient back to health care facility that originally treated the patient.
Sex education; require school districts to implement Personal Responsibility curriculum.
Joint Education and Mental Health Study Committee; create to study services provided to children with mental disorders.
Joint Legislative Study Committee on Reforming the Mississippi Education System for Children and Youth with Mental Health Needs; create.
Legislators; require State Personnel Board to set salary at national average.
Mississippi Interagency Council on Homelessness; create.
Agreement among States to elect U.S. President by national popular vote.
CON; authorize transfer of nursing home beds from Hancock County and new nursing home beds in Lamar County.
School boards; limit taxing authority of appointed boards until all boards are elected in 2015.
Motor vehicle tags to support Louisiana-Mississippi Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Euclatubba Road; name bridge over U.S. Highway 45 as the "Euclatubba Memorial Crossing."
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize an additional round for counties and municipalities.
Tourism; revise definition of tourism project for purposes of tourism project sales tax incentive program.
Appropriation; Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Department of.
Appropriation; Environmental Quality, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Passed the House · 4
State bid law requirements; revise process for awarding contracts for renovation and restoration of certain historical buildings.
Rural Physicians Recruitment and Retention Incentive Grant Program Act; create.
U.S. Highway 78; designate certain segment of in Benton and Marshall Counties as "William 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway".
Hotel renovation projects sales tax incentive; authorize for certain projects.
Out of committee · 1
CON; organize various provisions of CON law into separate code sections.
In committee · 10
University of Mississippi Medical Center - Act Center Fund; require annual transfer of funds from State General Fund to.
Mississippi Accountability and Transparency Act; establish additional requirements for DFA's website on state spending.
CON; except construction of ICF-MR facility on leased or transferred Columbia Training School property from requirement for issuance of.
I.C.F.-MR facility; Health Department issue license to Millcreek of Columbia to operate on Columbia Training School property.
Dairy Stabilization Grant Program; create to provide grant assistance to certain milk producers.
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize additional round.
Medicaid; require division to cooperate with Health Benefit Exchange and create Health Benefit Exchange Act.
Private adoptions; require licensed adoption agencies and attorneys to maintain certain records.
Wild hogs; require the Commission of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to allow hunting on Wildlife management areas at certain times.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for construction of the Wellspring Center for Professional Futures.