Bills in the 2008 Regular Session, Senate.
Nickey Browning
Sponsored
Became law5
Counties; increase threshold amount that requires a requisition, purchase order or receiving report.
Water districts; clarify incorporation by rural water associations.
Distinctive license tags; authorize for various purposes.
Pontotoc and Union Counties; authorize the adoption of zoning ordinances that apply to the Greater Wellspring Project Area.
Suffrage; restore to Bobbie Ann Wood.
In committee10
School term; cannot begin before the 3rd Monday in August.
Elections; enact open primary and abolish partisan primaries.
Corrections; revise medical reimbursement rate for state inmates housed in county jails.
Emergency 911 laws; repeal CMRS board/authorize board of supervisors to levy charge per CMRS connection.
Ad valorem tax; authorize for one motor vehicle owned by a member of the Armed Forces who served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Local System Road Program; authorize the issuance of bonds to fund.
Ad valorem taxes; remove the provision that prescribes the manner in which affordable rental housing must be appraised.
Local System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program; authorize issuance of State General Obligation Bonds in support of.
City of Pontotoc; authorize general sales tax to fund purchase of fire fighting equipment/construction of a fire station.
City of Pontotoc; authorize the expansion of the city's gas distribution system into Union County.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
2008 First Extraordinary Session · Unemployment compensation; increase the maximum weekly benefit.
Drug courts; encourage increase in number.
Children adopted through state-supported adoption agency; provide for continuation of Medicaid benefits.
MSU Old Extension Service Building; name building after former and current employees.
Ad valorem taxation; authorize boards of supervisors and municipal authorities to exempt a portion of certain vendor tooling.
Passed the Senate · 9
Appropriation; Department of Finance and Administration to study state tax system.
Government contracts; require labor to be performed by U.S. citizens or legal aliens.
Tort immunity; include food donated to needy.
Mississippi Performance Review Act of 2008; enact.
Major medical leave; state law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty shall not be required to use.
Local government; prohibit from placing certain restrictions on existing shooting ranges.
Absentee ballots; revise the manner in which absentee ballots are counted.
Economic Development; create the Mid-Delta Industrial Commission.
Appropriation; Dept. of Insurance, Windstorm Reinsurance; Additional FY 2008.
Out of committee · 1
Income tax; authorize a credit for taxpayers who are first-time homebuyers of a principal residence in this state.
In committee · 3
Elections; require electors to present certain types of identification before being allowed to vote.
Corrections; authorize MDOC to contract with Tishomingo County for regional prison.
Highways; Transportation Department construct Highway 72 bypass for City of Corinth.