Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, Senate.
Gray Tollison
Sponsored
Became law16
Youth court; permit referral to drug court and prohibit sex offender access to MYCIDS, beaches and campgrounds.
Corrections; clarify prohibition against possessing unauthorized items in correctional facilities.
School district consolidation; require in certain counties.
Education Employment Procedures Law; clarify deadline for notification of nonreemployment.
High school advanced placement courses; delete requirement for State Department of Education approval.
Employment of substitute teachers; clarify deduction of cost of substitutes from pay of absent licensee.
Reading Sufficiency Program of Instruction; repeal components.
Office of Dropout Prevention in the State Department of Education; clarify responsibility.
Local option law; revise definition of the term "restaurant."
Low-performing schools and school districts; authorize State Board of Education to consolidate in emergency situations.
Coordinated School Health Pilot Program based on federal model; authorize SDE and SDH to establish.
School district consolidation; require in certain counties and study administrative consolidation of agricultural high schools.
School District Procurement Efficiency Commission; continue under State Department of Education and authorize procurement cards.
Dual enrollment-dual credit work skills certificate program in high school and community college; establish pilot program.
Lafayette County; establish the Lafayette County Reserve and Trust Fund.
Lafayette County; extend authority to contribute to the Oxford Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation.
Passed the Senate7
Implied Consent Law; remove Crime Lab's responsibility to calibrate intoxilyzers and other such devices.
Local school superintendents; all appointed after January 1, 2016.
Charter schools; enact the "Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012."
Dual enrollment programs for high school students; clarify requirements.
Public universities; may provide certain services to children with hearing loss/specific language impairment.
Memorial highways; designate Highway 6 in Lafayette County as the "Military Order of the Purple Heart Highway."
Kevser Ermin Memorial Highway; designate certain segment of MS 314 in Lafayette County as.
Out of committee2
Eligibility of children in certain licensed residential facilities to receive federal education funds; provide.
Teacher and school administrator licensure; establish office within State Department of Education regarding licensure matters.
In committee17
Accessory after the fact; revise.
Disabilities; authorize designation of certain on driver's licenses or I.D. cards.
Domestic abuse; Protective Order Registry to be checked before granting bail on another charge.
Child abuse and neglect; revise persons with a duty to inform.
DUI; authorize drug or alcohol treatment in lieu of imprisonment.
Accessory after the fact; revise punishment.
Traffic tickets; clarify time of filing under certain circumstances.
Juvenile Detention Efficiency and Center Licensing Act of 2012; create.
Youth detention; revise instruction program requirements.
Exemplary Inclusive School Award Program for children with disabilities; clarify implementation by State Department of Education.
Conversion charter school; require for certain low-performing schools following transitional year.
State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS); reenact to develop interagency participation to link education with employment.
State Advisory Panel on Special Education; revise membership and duties.
Students with disabilities; parents shall receive copy of outside evaluation and observation report, etc.
Crime lab analysis; burden on defendant to require appearance at trial.
Abandoned personal property; landlord may dispose of property left by tenant in the rented premises after a seven-day waiting period.
Abandoned personal property; landlord may dispose of property left by tenant in the rented premises.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Voyeurism; create felony offense when victim is under 16.
Passed the Senate · 2
Accessory after the fact; revise punishment for the offense of.
School premises liability; provide for shared use and public access to school buildings.