Bills in the 2010 Regular Session, Senate.
Willie Simmons
Sponsored
Passed the Senate9
Highways; add certain segment of Miss. 32 in Sunflower County and Miss. 6 in Pontotoc County to state highway system.
Parole supervision fees; increase.
Trusties who are authorized to accumulate additional earned time; revise.
Department of Information Technology Services; establish a State Data Center and require state agencies to virtualize servers.
Corrections; revise initial period for agricultural leases.
Parole; provide for discretion for the revocation of certain offender's parole.
Corrections; prohibit sex between employees of correctional facilities or law enforcement agencies and offenders.
Intensive supervision program; increase monthly program fee that offenders must pay to participate in.
Private correctional facilities; require to reimburse Department of Corrections for contract compliance officer's salary.
In committee11
Juneteenth Freedom Day; designate as day of commemoration not legal holiday.
Four-lane highway program; add segment of U.S. 61 to high priority list.
Drug courts; provide that the State Advisory Committee develop a plan to establish in county, justice and municipal courts.
Appropriation FY11; Alcorn State University - Agricultural Programs.
Four-lane highway program; add segment of U.S. 49W to high priority list.
School districts; pilot program requiring pupils to read a minimum of four books per school year.
Children-at-risk; establish the Motivating Parents and Children (MPAC) pilot program for school districts.
State lottery; create and provide for the distribution of revenue from.
Income tax; increase rate of tax.
Pseudoephedrine; tracking system for sales of.
Bolivar County; authorize certain chancellor to appoint special master and family master for.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Mississippi Public Health Laboratory; name for Dr. Ed Thompson.
Armed Forces Absentee Voting Law; make changes to comply with federal law.
Juvenile Detention Facilities Monitoring Unit; revise certain duties of.
Appropriation; Dept. of Corrections - Support and Reimb. Local Confinement.
Appropriation; Emergency Management Agency.
Appropriation; Military Dept.- Support.
Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Bd.
Appropriation; Office of State Aid Road Construction.
Vetoed · 1
Appropriation; Dept. Public Safety - Consol.
Passed the Senate · 1
Veterans Day; clarify public observance of.
In committee · 5
Auto insurance; deductible provisions shall not apply to windshield damage.
Municipal judges; provide additional.
MS Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission; increase membership of.
Appropriation; State Department of Education; national board certification, additional for FY2010.
Appropriation; district attorneys; staff, chancellor and circuit judges; additional for FY2010.