Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, House.
Mark Baker
Sponsored
Became law8
Judicial pay raise; enact.
County board of supervisors; authorize to adopt an order, resolution or ordinance for a specific area of the county.
Burn Center Lodge; update name of organization receiving tax to support it to the current name of MS Burn Foundation.
Counties; revise procedures to clean property determined to be a menace.
Controlled substances; acquiring by theft, fraud and the like.
Controlled substance; revise forfeiture law.
Rankin County; authorize donation of certain real property to the Mississippi Burn Foundation.
Rankin County; authorize contribution to nonprofit organizations that provide recreational/sports activities for county youth.
Passed the House8
Open burning laws; create study committee to evaluate and make recommendations regarding.
Ad valorem tax; revise the definition of "home" or "homestead" under the Homestead Exemption Law.
Motor carrier transportation services contracts; provide that indemnification and hold harmless clauses are void and unenforceable.
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of qualified resort area under the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
Butalbital; clarify is a Schedule III controlled substance.
Prescription Monitoring Program Advisory Committee; create.
Administrative subpoena; expand authority of Attorney General.
MS Motor Vehicle Commission Law; provide compensation that mfgr./dist. must pay dealer upon termination of franchise.
Out of committee4
Radar; authorize use of in counties with a certain population.
State agency personnel; remove from certain State Personnel Board procedures for two year.
Public records; revise fees charged for providing.
Counterfeit controlled substances; prohibit sale, manufacture or possession.
In committee11
Circuit clerk fees; revise amount received in eminent domain action.
Ad valorem tax; remove the provision that prescribes the manner in which affordable rental housing must be appraised.
Appropriation bills; shall contain lump-sum amounts and not major objects of expenditure.
Mississippi Clinical Laboratory Science Practice Act; create.
Pearl River Valley Water Supply District; revise requirements for board membership and authorize to provide certain services.
Rankin County; authorize sheriff to use radar on county roads.
District attorneys; provide additional legal assistants for the 20th Circuit Court District.
Landlord-tenant; revise disposition of certain property.
Workers' Compensation Commission; revise composition and jurisdiction of.
City of Ridgeland; authorize the city to levy an additional sales tax for certain purposes.
Rankin County; authorize to provide recreational grants to certain qualifying entities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 4
Child Protection Act and Child Rape Protection Act; enact.
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Sales tax; exempt sales of utilities to churches.
Blind Persons' Literacy Rights and Education Act; revise.
Passed the House · 5
Illegal immigration; strengthen enforcement provisions to prevent.
Income tax; increase credit for ad valorem tax paid on inventory.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Abortion; prohibit an abortion of an unborn human individual with a detectable heartbeat.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Out of committee · 2
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Public Safety Verification and Enforcement Act; create.
In committee · 7
Hospitals; Department of Health shall authorize to establish and operate off-campus emergency departments.
Drug courts; revise participation requirements.
Commission on Reviewing the Governance of Sixteenth Section Lands in Mississippi; create.
Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012; enact to establish new process for creating.
Public assistance benefits; combined incomes of all persons in same household used to determine eligibility for.
State agency personnel; remove from certain State Personnel Board procedures for two years.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; create and provide certain tax incentives for qualified businesses located in.