Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Mark Baker
Sponsored
Became law4
Corporations; revise filing for reinstatement of dissolved.
Sentences; authorize justice and municipal court judges to suspend under certain conditions.
Traffic tickets; revise filing with the court for incarcerated persons.
Rankin County; authorize hiring of two part-time assistant county prosecuting attorneys for.
Passed the House3
Deeds of trust; substitute trustee in foreclosure proceeding on must be Mississippi resident.
Court rules; require legislative approval.
Tort Claims Act; revise notice.
Out of committee1
Appropriation bills; require to be in lump sum format with no major object of expenditure.
In committee15
Rankin County; authorize sheriff to use radar on county roads.
Fire protection districts; prohibit boards of supervisors from taxing real properties annexed by municipalities.
Absentee ballots; authorize circuit clerk to vote them on voting machine.
Kin contacts; list on driver's license.
Line of credit; mortgages shall close it upon payment of all sums owing unless requested to remain open.
Highways, roads and streets; create grant program to assist municipalities in constructing and maintaining.
Pearl River Valley Water Supply District; authorize to receive funds from tickets.
Rankin assistant prosecuting attorney; authorize employment of as many part-time as needed.
Fire protection districts; revise voting requirement of board of commissioners for reducing boundaries of.
Abstract of court records; require court clerk to send to DPS for traffic violations.
Municipal Crime Prevention Fund; reenact and amend.
Boating privileges; authorize Commission on Wildlife to issue permit or endorsement for Ross Barnett Reservoir.
Boat registration; establish a special endorsement permit and set fee for boating privileges in certain water districts.
State employees; remove all in executive branch from Personnel Board procedures for one year.
City of Ridgeland; authorize to impose local sales tax.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Sales tax; clarify exemption regarding sales of certain home medical equipment and supplies paid for under Medicare/Medicaid.
U.S. Highway 90; designate certain highway bridge thereon as "Leo W. Seal, Jr., Memorial Bridge."
Sales tax; revise definition of "business" to exclude sales of meals/food at colleges when paid by students with certain cards/accounts.
Harvest permits; extend repealer on law authorizing and revise vehicles for which may be issued.
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of qualified resort area for purpose of sale at certain areas designated recreational.
Qualified equity investment tax credit; allow to be taken against insurance premium retaliatory tax.
Mississippi Major Economic Impact Act; revise definition of project and authorize the issuance of bonds.
Rankin County; authorize contribution to nonprofit organizations that provide recreational/sports activities for county youth.
Passed the House · 6
Sales tax; exempt sales of tangible personal property and services to certain organizations providing food to needy persons.
Sales tax; exempt certain sales of gold, silver and other metals.
Columbia Training School property; authorize lease for ICFMR facility and for public purposes.
Clayton P. Henderson; name Marks Vegetable Processing Facility operated by Alcorn State University after.
Election Reform Act; create with same day registration, early voting and certain crimes expunged.
Sales tax; revise rate on certain sales of tractors, farm implements, logging/pulpwood equipment, repair parts and labor.
Out of committee · 1
Income tax; exclude active duty military compensation received by a resident while stationed out of state.
In committee · 14
Fire protection districts; prohibit board of supervisors from taxing property annexed by municipality, bring forward certain sections.
Appeals to circuit court from board of supervisors and municipal authorities; revise.
Beaver control program; transfer administration to the Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
Radar; authorize sheriff and deputy sheriffs to use on county roads to enforce speed limits.
Voter ID; enact.
DUI; revise use of ignition interlock device.
State officers and agencies; authorize to appoint or employ special counsel.
Child abuse; provide penalties for false reports and enact child protection managers.
Alcoholic beverages; authorize certain municipalities in dry counties to vote to come out from under the dry law for limited sales.
Photo voter identification; require when a person appears to vote at registrar's office or polling place.
School districts; create additional exemptions from certain duties in districts accredited at Level 4 or 5.
Driver's license; allow translation of birth certificate of foreign-born applicant to be translated by college or university.
Municipalities; revise authority to clean private property.
Bonds; authorize issuance of bonds for improvements to Jackson Zoo.