Bills in the 2016 Regular Session, Senate.
Gray Tollison
Sponsored
Became law12
Literacy-Based Promotion Act; provide standards for individual reading plans and clarify assessments.
Students who withdrew from school before graduation; authorize high school diploma for achieving reasonably comparable requirements.
Mississippi Charter Schools Act of 2013; make technical amendments relating to funding, enrollment and operation.
Securities registration; provide for notice filings for federal covered securities created by the JOBS Act.
Reading intervention program at "C" level or low-performing school districts; direct State Department of Education to conduct.
Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District and Mississippi State University; may operate model rural school.
Local school superintendents; all appointed after January 1, 2019.
School district consolidation; require in Carroll County/Montgomery County/Winona.
School district consolidation; require in Lumberton Public School District and adjoining districts.
Coahoma Agriculture High School; provide for closure and transfer of facilities, equipment and students.
DOFA; authorize to issue request for administrative support to comply with ACA.
School safety plan documents; exempt from Public Records Act.
Passed the Senate8
School district financial advisors; those appointed by State Supt. of Education deemed as independent contractors & clarify payment.
Determination of cost of adequate education program; define student "average daily membership" (ADM) for purpose of formula.
Education Enhancement Funds; authorize for Mississippi Schools for Arts, Math and Blind/Deaf.
Council on Education Technology; reestablish and define responsibilities.
School district consolidation; require in Chickasaw County.
Salary supplement for Nat'l. Bd. Certified teachers who teach in certain counties; authorize & clarify process reimbursement.
Lafayette County; authorize contributions to the Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation through FY2019.
City of Oxford; authorize contributions to Oxford-Lafayette County Economic Development Foundation.
Out of committee2
School district consolidation; require in Holmes County.
State Department of Education; remove from certain State Personnel Board procedures for four years.
In committee33
Retirement; persons convicted of certain felonies shall forfeit benefits from PERS, SLRP and MHSPRS.
Transfer of students between school districts; automatic transfer of students attending school rated "C," "D" or "F."
Public universities; provide for a State University System and local boards of trustees.
Noah DeWayne Smith Act; prohibit sale of caffeine to those under 18.
Antlered deer; all of bag limit for hunters 75 or older may be any antlered deer.
State employees; allow medical leave without use of personal leave when dependent is dismissed from school sick.
Public contracts; give preference to resident bidders.
Street gang criminal activity; revise offense of and civil forfeiture for.
City of Batesville; extend the repeal date on the city's hotel, motel and restaurant tax.
Third Circuit District; revise residency requirement.
Disabilities; authorize designation of certain on driver's licenses or I.D. cards.
School Leaders Executive Development Program (SLED); establish.
Teaching Fellows Program under the State Board of Education; make technical revisions.
Sixteenth Section school land; Secretary of State manages in school districts under conservatorship.
Statewide monetary assessments; revise internal dates.
Uniform Powers of Appointment Act; create.
Qualifications for school superintendents; revise.
National Board Certified teachers; clarify process reimbursement.
Appropriation FY2017; SDE for NBPTS critical teacher shortage program and Mississippi World Class Teaching Program.
Local school board authority to require school athletics and activities; prescribe certain conditions.
Arrest of students on school property; provide for collection of data.
Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (2015); create.
School district consolidation; require in Greenwood and Leflore County.
School district consolidation; require in Perry County.
School district consolidation; require in Hollandale and Leland.
Crimes of violence; clarify ineligibility for parole.
School district employees; remove authority of local school board to delegate employment recommendations.
Civics portion of Naturalization Test; require passing score for high school graduates and GED applicants.
Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship Program; delete repealer.
School board members; all elected beginning with the November 2020 general election.
Statewide county court system; create.
Transfer on Death Act; create.
Alcoholic beverages; purchased from on-premises permittee during legal hours may be consumed after legal hours on the premises.
Co-sponsored
Passed the Senate · 2
Sale tax; divert an additional amount to cities to be used to fund infrastructure projects.
Appropriation; Department of Medicaid and Human Services.
Out of committee · 1
Parental rights; termination of.
In committee · 1
Mississippi K-12 Student Performance and Efficiency Commission; establish.