Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Patricia H. Willis
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Sales tax; exempt certain sales of nonperishable foods, certain other sales and livestock admission and parking.
In committee1
Sales tax; exempt sales of nonperishable food items to certain charitable organizations.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Weapons; clarify state preemption of local ordinances.
Teacher salaries; provide for increase.
Executive Committee; prohibit certain persons from serving on municipal, county and state.
Commission Against Interpersonal Violence; create.
Memorial highways; designate segment in Clay County as the "Representative David Gibbs Memorial Highway".
Abortion; prohibit performing at or after 20 weeks.
Law Enforcement Officers Death/Disability Benefits Trust Fund; expand coverage to include emergency management personnel & increase benefit.
Passed the House · 7
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Municipal airport authorities; add to definition of "public entity" to authorize use of New Markets Tax Credit.
Ad valorem; revise the definition of "home" or "homestead" under the homestead exemption law.
Public colleges and universities; require to develop a plan for addressing unintended pregnancy.
Duplicate license; prohibit public bodies from requiring licensees to appear in person to receive.
Gale Stauffer, Jr. and Joseph Maher Law Enforcement Act of 2014; create.
City of Waveland; authorize to use Hancock County Justice Court to conduct Waveland City Court.
Out of committee · 1
Mississippi Patient Protection Act of 2014; enact.
In committee · 13
Required weapons training course for enhanced carry permit; exempt servicemen.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
County purchases; person making purchase without requisition is personally liable, not purchase clerk.
County budget expenses; require state to fully fund state services being subsidized by counties.
County vehicles and road equipment; authorize boards of supervisors to allow use between county departments.
Dyslexia education; require instruction in for licensure as educator or administrator.
"The Municipal Election Reform Act of 2014"; create.
Voter Assistance; revise how an elector may receive and who can provide such to an elector.
Instruments of record; require to be in the English language.
Agricultural lease of prison lands; transfer management of from DFA to Secretary of State and reduce lease period.
Guns; prohibit confiscation during natural disasters.
State Parole Board; authorize to place offenders under house arrest & to use conditional medical release.
Appropriation; Department of Public Safety for Highway Patrol trooper training class.