Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, Senate.
Gray Tollison
Sponsored
Became law4
Career and technical grants to schools for qualified students; provide for.
Education of students in juvenile detention facilities; define responsibility of home school district.
Teachers' salaries; provide for $1,500.00 increase.
Lafayette County; authorize board of supervisors to contribute to Interfaith Compassion Ministries.
Passed the Senate3
Teacher Forgivable Loan Program; available to nontraditional licensed teachers under certain conditions.
Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program; extend repealer.
Comprehensive eye examination for students prior to enrollment; recommend.
Out of committee2
Teacher shortage in Mississippi; establish Teacher Leadership Program and Teacher Credentialing and Retention Grant Program.
Teacher and administrator licenses; clarify grounds for disciplinary action and reinstatement.
In committee12
Disabilities; authorize designation of certain on driver's licenses or I.D. cards.
Third Circuit Court District; revise residency requirement.
State and School Employees Health Insurance Management Board; State Supt. of Education may appoint a designee to attend meetings.
Good samaritan immunity from liability law; extend to architects and engineers who volunteer during disasters.
Public contracts; give preference to resident bidders.
Official Mississippi State Songs; designate Official Traditional Country Song and Official Traditional Blues Song.
Health insurance coverage for mental illness; add coverage parity reporting requirements.
Mandatory K-12 computer science curriculum; direct SBE to implement.
Alternative nicotine products; prohibit possession of by persons under 18 and possession by students on school property.
Mississippi School Safety Act of 2019; enact.
Bonds; authorize issuance for improvements to certain property in Batesville to house the Concourse Workforce Training Center.
Bonds; authorize issuance to assist Oxford in reconstruction of intersection of Highway 7 and University Drive.
Co-sponsored
In committee · 1
Authorize the direct shipment wine.