Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, Senate.
Gray Tollison
Sponsored
Became law9
Sex offender registration; revise to comply with federal mandates.
All-terrain vehicles; require competency training and helmets under a certain age.
Domestic Violence Fund; technical correction.
Office of Capital Defense Counsel/Office of Indigent Appeals; merge into Office of State Public Defender.
State Superintendent of Education; State Board of Education shall set salary of.
Mississippi Public Defender Task Force; extend repealer on.
Lafayette County; may contribute to the Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation.
Oxford & Lafayette County; authorize termination of Oxford/Lafayette County Comm. Health Foundation if hosp. facilities are sold.
City of Oxford; establish the City of Oxford Municipal Reserve and Trust Fund.
Passed the Senate7
Drug overdoses; health care providers to give notice of certain.
Highway patrol officer; revise minimum qualifications.
Uniform traffic ticket; revise responsibility for devising form and accounting for copies.
Task Force to Study Teacher Salaries; establish.
Arrest; revise right of certain individuals to probable cause hearing.
Sexual motivation; require special allegation in certain felony prosecutions.
Lafayette County; authorize contributions to the Interfaith Compassion Ministries Homeless Shelter programs and facilities.
Out of committee2
Traffic tickets; clarify time of filing in certain circumstances and revise authority to prescribe form of ticket.
Tony Gobar program; revise.
In committee33
Public Employee Whistleblower Act; bring forward sections.
Commercial driver's license; technical correction and clarification.
Cell phones; limit use and prohibit texting while driving.
Defensive driving school; authorize Internet courses.
Law enforcement officers; require to be compensated for overtime work.
Child sexual conduct; revise computation of second or subsequent offense of depiction of.
Nitrous oxide; technical correction to prohibition of use on public streets and highways.
Health insurance policies; require coverage for autism spectrum disorders.
Controlled substances; restrict prescription of and provide criminal liability for practitioners for overdose deaths.
Bureau of Narcotics; authorize issuance of administrative subpoenas.
Net-energy metering; require electric utilities to allow.
Commissioner of Insurance; require insurers to give reasons for declination, cancellation or nonrenewal if requested.
Income tax; authorize a deduction for certain college savings plans maintained by other states.
Prescription Monitoring Program; require Board of Pharmacy to assess fee against licensed practitioners to fund.
Parent allowed to disenroll a child from full-day kindergarten program; delete provision.
Check casher licensees; require annual reporting to Commissioner of Banking.
Health insurance; require coverage for infertility treatments.
Motor vehicle privilege tax; include in definition of private carriers of property certain persons transporting cotton/cottonseed.
Driver's license and identification card; revise offense of lending or falsely displaying.
Highway Patrol Retirement System; increase mandatory retirement age for members of.
Driver's license; increase fee for reinstatement following suspension.
DNA testing; revise in context of post-conviction relief.
School Employment Procedures Law; include assistant teachers under.
Certified emergency telecommunicators; require continuing education for.
Traffic tickets; clarify time of filing in certain circumstances and revise authority to prescribe form of ticket.
Prescription Monitoring Program; practitioners to check database before prescribing Schedule II drugs to new patients.
Appropriation; district attorneys/assistant district attorneys; special judges, chancellors & circuit judges; additional for FY2011.
Drug drop-off and disposal; create program.
Blue Alert system; create.
Justice court judges; exempt certain sitting judges from certain examination requirements.
Alcoholic beverages and prescription medications; prohibit adults from allowing party for minors to obtain.
PERS; provide for payment of contributions on income of chancery or circuit clerks-county may elect to pay all employee contributions.
MS Building Codes Council; may adopt a statewide building energy code for residential and commercial construction.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Investigation costs; provide for reasonable recovery by Bureau of Narcotics.
Memorial highway; designate a certain segment of I-59 as "Mississippi Gold Star Memorial Highway."
Passed the Senate · 5
Schedule I; expand definition of cathinone derivatives and synthetic cannabinoids.
Concealed weapons; remove prohibition against carrying in certain places.
Controlled substances; acquiring by theft, fraud and the like.
Wildlife; regulate deer-breeding farms.
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as "William R. 'Bill' Minor Memorial Highway."
In committee · 3
Salaries of judges; increase/establish funding.
Ultram, Soma and Fioricet; schedule as controlled substances.
Public contracts related to a federally declared disaster; grant preference to resident contractors.