Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, House.
Bill Denny
Sponsored
Became law5
Crimes; create felony offense of knowingly deceiving a firearms dealer regarding firearm purchases.
Voter identification; require for all elections.
Primary election contests; may be heard only by circuit judges.
Election day disputes; clarify availability of judges to hear.
Absentee ballots; require registrar to process all received and delivered through the Statewide Election Management System.
Passed the House3
Attempted murder; create offense.
Absentee ballots for enlisted soldiers; authorize use of electronic signatures and revise time for receipt of.
Voter assistance; revise provision and require signed declarations of those attesting witnesses.
In committee17
School districts; require administrative consolidation into one district per county.
Open Lawyer Fees Act; create.
Elected officials; indictment results in suspension without pay and conviction results in removal.
General Laws, legislative journals and MS cases reporters; Secretary of State may reduce number distributed free of cost.
Homestead exemption; increase.
Income tax; provide a credit for contributions to school tuition organizations or public schools.
Homestead exemption; increase for totally disabled veterans and extend to unremarried surviving spouses of such veterans.
Income tax; provide credit for taxpayer paying home security expenses for primary residence.
Tuition; waive at universities and colleges for children of certain deceased veterans.
Voter assistance; revise provisions and require signed declarations.
Ad valorem taxation; revise procedure for appeal of decisions regarding objections to assessments of real or personal property.
Voter Identification; require those who appear to vote to present proper.
Absentee ballots for enlisted soldiers; authorize use of electronic signatures.
Appellate judges; provide for appointed judges of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Crimes; revise attempt to commit an offense.
Products liability; revise to include designers.
State Bank of Mississippi; create to promote agriculture, commerce and industry in the state.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 24
Child Protection Act and Child Rape Protection Act; enact.
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery; authorize additional cemeteries.
Gun permits; revise reciprocity.
Student grades; prohibit certain school administrators and district employees from influencing a change in.
Appropriation; Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District.
Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System.
Appropriation; Oil and Gas Board.
Appropriation; Real Estate Commission.
Appropriation; Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board.
Appropriation; Athletic Commission.
Appropriation; Medical Licensure, Board of.
Appropriation; Physical Therapy Board.
Appropriation; Psychology, Board of.
Appropriation; Coast Coliseum Commission.
Appropriation; Nursing Home Administrators, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing, Board of.
Appropriation; Engineers and Land Surveyors, Board of Registration for Professional.
Appropriation; Cosmetology, Board of.
Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
Appropriation; Veterans' Home Purchase Board.
Appropriation; Auctioneers Commission.
Appropriation; Barber Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Optometry, Board of.
Passed the House · 2
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act/Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act; create.
Out of committee · 3
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Public Safety Verification and Enforcement Act; create.
Teacher Classroom and Disciplinary Control Act; create.
In committee · 17
DUI; create offense of child endangerment.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to assist Hinds County in construction of the Byram-Clinton Parkway Project.
Classroom supply funds; require annual allotment before November 1 to full-time and part-time teachers.
State parole board; require to submit report to Governor regarding petition for pardon by person convicted of felony crime.
CON; organize various provisions of CON law into separate code sections.
Armed robbery; provide for minimum prison sentence of 10 years.
Extracurricular and athletic activities; require students to maintain a 2.0 weekly grade point average for participation.
Katie's Law; require DNA testing for all felony arrests.
School vouchers; authorize State Department of Education to issue under the MS School Choice Scholarship Program.
Tax levy to support school districts; authorize levying authority to veto school board request for increase up to seven percent.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.
Income tax; authorize a credit for portion of costs paid by a business enterprise to expand and relocate employees to this state.
Income tax; authorize a credit for portion of costs paid by company in relocating national or regional headquarters to this state.
Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012; enact to establish new process for creating.
Charter schools; authorize new start-up charter schools and conversion schools.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; create and provide certain tax incentives for qualified businesses located in.
City of Ridgeland; authorize the city to levy an additional sales tax for certain purposes.