Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, Senate.
Gray Tollison
Sponsored
Became law10
Hospital records; allow reproduction of in any form or digital media.
Crime stoppers; allow council to audit local programs.
DNA preservation; revise Post Conviction Collateral Relief Act.
Tony Gobar Individualized Assessment and Comprehensive Community Intervention Initiative Program; extend repealer.
Domestic violence; revise per Supreme Court Commission recommendation.
Public meetings; revise requirements for those held through teleconference or video means.
Statewide monetary assessments; clarify and revise.
Cause of action; create specific claim for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.
Town of Sumner; authorize conveyance of certain real property to Tallahatchie County.
Uniform Traffic Ticket Law; require prompt filing with court.
Passed the Senate2
Income tax; authorize a deduction for certain college savings plans maintained by other states.
Accessory after the fact; revise.
In committee41
Health insurance; require coverage for infertility treatments.
Net-energy metering; require electric utilities to allow.
Parent allowed to disenroll a child from full-day kindergarten program; delete provision.
Major medical leave; state law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty shall not be required to use.
Offenses against law enforcement and public officials; require lifetime registration for those convicted of certain.
Drivers under age 17; restrict age and number of passengers allowed; restrict cell phone use.
Sales taxation; exempt sales to American Legion Posts.
Sales tax; exempt sales of unprepared food for human consumption sold at farmer's markets.
Motor vehicle privilege tax; include in definition of private carriers of property certain persons transporting cotton/cottonseed.
Charter schools; authorize additional open-enrollment charter schools in high at-risk areas of the state.
Check casher licensees; require annual reporting to Commissioner of Banking.
Driver's license; revise suspension due to nonpayment of fine or failure to appear in response to a citation.
All-terrain vehicles; require competency training and helmets under a certain age.
State employee personal or medical leave; authorize donation to spousal employees.
Health insurance policies; require coverage for autism spectrum disorders.
Driver's license and identification card; revise offense of lending or falsely displaying.
Commissioner of Insurance; require insurers to give reasons for declination, cancellation or nonrenewal if requested.
Driving; prohibit texting and cell phone use.
Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act; enact.
Property; Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (NCCUSL).
School Employment Procedures Law; include assistant teachers under.
Lafayette County Superintendent of Education; to be appointed.
Law Enforcement Officers Death Benefits Trust Fund; expand coverage to include emergency telecommunicators.
Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine; restrict sales to pharmacies only.
Certified emergency telecommunicators; require continuing education for.
Law enforcement officers; provide minimum due process rights for municipal.
State Employees' Health Insurance Plan; delete provision requiring local school districts to pay cost for certain employees.
Law enforcement officers; require to be compensated for overtime work.
School nurses; require school districts to grant same leave allowances as allowed teachers.
Health insurance; require health insurance policies and State Health Plan to cover autism spectrum disorders.
Embezzlement; clarify penalties when committed by public official or certain others.
Metal theft; revise.
Commercial Driver's License Law; revise.
Coin operated devices; revise theft from, revise malicious mischief.
Internet pharmacies; regulate (MBN).
Wrongful conviction; provide compensation to certain exonerees.
School nurses; increase number eligible for salary supplement under MAEP.
Killed in line of duty; revise death benefit for law enforcement officers and fire fighters.
Coroners; provide death benefits for certain when killed in the line of duty.
Building permits; create crime of falsification of application.
Sales tax; revise definition of "business" to exclude food sales paid by certain declining balance debit cards.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Freedom to Farm Act; include honeybee production under definition of agricultural operations.
Vetoed · 1
Job tax credit; authorize for cut and sew jobs in the upholstered household furniture manufacturing industry.
In committee · 2
Health insurance; require health insurance policies and State Health plan to cover autism spectrum disorders.
Bonds; authorize issuance for certain state highway and infrastructure projects.