Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, Senate.
Willie Simmons
Sponsored
Passed the Senate5
Corrections; delete repealer on the authority of the department to assign inmates to certain facilities.
Prison Industries; extend repealer on prohibition of procurement of certain prison made goods from other states.
Department of Information Technology Services; require inventory of technology hardware for all agencies and institutions.
Corrections; revise conditions for medical release of inmates.
Memorial highway; designate MS Highway 552 in Claiborne and Jefferson Counties as "Dr. Walter Washington Parkway."
In committee9
Children-at-risk; establish the Motivating Parents and Children (MPAC) pilot program for school districts.
School districts; pilot program requiring pupils to read a minimum of four books per school year.
State lottery; create and provide for the distribution of revenue from.
Income tax; increase rate of tax.
Four-lane highway program; add segment of U.S. 49W to high priority list.
Nuclear Energy Research and Demonstration Center; IHL establish at ASU.
Child support obligation; grant priority as an unsecured interest.
Bonds; authorize issuance for establishment of the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail.
Indianola Tourism Commission; remove date of repeal.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Blue Alert System; create.
Memorial highway; designate a certain segment of I-59 as "Mississippi Gold Star Memorial Highway."
Appropriation; Corrections, Department of.
Appropriation; Emergency Management Agency.
Appropriation; Military Department.
Appropriation; Public Safety, Department of.
Appropriation; Veterans Affairs Board.
Appropriation; Transportation, Department of - State Aid Road Construction, Office of.
Passed the Senate · 4
Tort immunity; include food donated to needy.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as "William R. 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway."
Mississippi Motion Picture Incentive Act; revise certain provisions of.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds for construction of Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History.
Out of committee · 1
Elections; increase fee paid by legislative candidates upon entering the race for party nominations.
In committee · 4
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum; establish commission to select site and employ director.
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum; establish and issue bonds to construct.
Corrections; require all offenders on conditional medical release to be responsible for medical costs.
Bonds; increase amount authorized for a children's museum in Hinds County.