Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, House.
David W. Myers
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Bo Diddley Memorial Highway; designate segment of I-55 in Pike County as.
In committee25
MAEP; annually increase adjustment to base student cost for at-risk students until 50%.
MS Adequate Education Program; fully fund for FY17 and each year thereafter.
MS Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program; create.
Mississippi Highway 24; require MDOT to reconstruct a portion in Pike and Amite Counties to four lanes.
State Health Insurance Plan; increase lifetime maximum benefit.
Minimum wage; establish and provide for future increases, exemptions and overtime requirements.
Mississippi Foundation for Early Childhood Development; create.
Student-teacher ratio; lower maximum allowed in grades 1-4 to 24:1.
Assistant teachers; increase salaries of.
Teachers classroom supply funds; restrict diverting funds specified for from appropriation for other purposes.
Public school teachers; require districts to adopt a policy ensuring 250 minutes of planning time per week.
Compulsory School Attendance Law; lower mandatory age to 5 years to include kindergarten students.
School resource officers; revise educational training requirement as a condition of employment.
Teacher salaries; provide for increase to Southeastern average by 2021-2022 school term.
School Employees; repeal prohibition against making certain payroll deductions from salaries of.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.
Medicaid; suspend eligibility of incarcerated persons instead of terminating it.
Cemeteries; prohibit additional charges for later burial in plot from which remains were disinterred.
SNAP benefits; direct DHS to revise formula used to calculate to increase benefit amount for elderly persons.
State flag; change design of to the Bonnie Blue Flag.
Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; revise certain provisions regarding leisure and recreation districts.
Divorce; add domestic violence as a ground.
Income tax; revise provisions regarding net income of nonresidents, revise definition of term "doing business."
Sales tax; increase rate and deposit additional revenue into the Education Enhancement Fund.
Excise tax on gasoline and diesel; increase rate.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 25
2017 First Extraordinary Session · Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.
City of McComb; extend date of repeal on hotel/motel tourism tax.
Appropriation; Athletic Commission.
Appropriation; Auctioneers Commission.
Appropriation; Barber Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Cosmetology, Board of.
Appropriation; Engineers and Land Surveyors, Board of Registration for Professional.
Appropriation; Medical Licensure, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing Home Administrators, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing, Board of.
Appropriation; Oil and Gas Board.
Appropriation; Optometry, Board of.
Appropriation; Physical Therapy Board.
Appropriation; Psychology, Board of.
Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System.
Appropriation: Real Estate Commission and Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board.
Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
Appropriation; Veterans' Home Purchase Board.
Appropriation; Public Service Commission.
Appropriation; Public Utilities Staff.
Appropriation; Medicaid, Division of.
Appropriation; Health, Department of.
Appropriation; Human Services, Department of.
Appropriation;Child Protective Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Rehabilitation Services, Department of.
Passed the House · 2
Distinctive motor vehicle license tag; revise distribution of fees collected from issuance to members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of.