Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, Senate.
Videt Carmichael
Sponsored
Became law10
Dental insurance; delete repealer on prohibitions against certain provisions in provider contracts.
Liquefied Compressed Gas Board; require good character and competency before granting permit to distribute/sell.
Property and Casualty Actuarial Opinion Act; delete repealer on.
Comprehensive Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program; extend repealer on.
Comprehensive Health Insurance Risk Pool Association; increase membership of board of directors.
Insurance adjusters; provide certain exemption to licensure requirement of.
Surplus lines insurance; nonadmitted policy fee shall be set at certain percentage.
Surplus lines insurance producers; require to execute form promulgated by Commissioner of Insurance stating certain facts.
National Flood Insurance Program; revise laws regarding eligibility for.
MS Building Code Council; shall furnish report to the Legislature on standards for a statewide building code.
Passed the Senate3
Portable electronics insurance; require licensure of vendors to sell policies.
Health insurance policies; authorize Commissioner of Insurance to approve or disapprove premium rates.
Bail bondsmen; revise certain licensing laws under the authority of the Department of Insurance.
Out of committee1
State Health Insurance Management Board; authorize to impose premium differential based on risk factors.
In committee12
Appropriation; MAEP High-Growth Formula; additional for FY2012.
Driver's license and identification card; require designation of veterans.
Health insurance; prohibit policies that restrict insured from assigning benefits to provider.
State Chief Assistant Deputy Fire Marshal; authorize position of.
Insurance Commissioner; revise requirement to examine certain entities from once every 3 years to 5 years.
Autopsy; allow State Fire Marshal to petition for after fire-related deaths.
State Health Insurance Management Board; allow Commissioner of Insurance to be represented by his designee.
Surplus lines insurance; exempt from premium tax any property risk written by DFA on behalf of the State of Mississippi.
Children's Health Insurance Program; transfer administration to Division of Medicaid.
State Auditor; authorize to contract with independent specialists or firms to assist in the performance of an audit.
Constables; revise compensation when serving as justice court bailiff.
Income tax; authorize deduction for retrofitting of residences in coastal counties to mitigate damages from certain weather events.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Memorial highway; designate certain segment of U.S. Highway 78 as William R. "Bill" Minor Memorial Highway.
Memorial highway; designate a certain portion of MS Highway 245 in Chickasaw County as the Carl J. "Jack" Gordon, Jr. Memorial Highway.
Appropriation; Banking and Consumer Finance, Department of.
Appropriation; Employment Security, Department of.
Appropriation; Revenue, Department of.
Appropriation; Tax Appeals Board.
Appropriation; Workers' Compensation Commission.
Appropriation; Finance and Administration, Department of.
Appropriation; Governor's Office and Mansion.
Appropriation; Audit, Department of.
Appropriation; Information Technology Services, Department of.
Appropriation; Personnel Board.
Appropriation; Secretary of State.
Appropriation; Treasurer's Office.
Appropriation; Debt service and bank service charges.
Passed the Senate · 2
Ad valorem taxes; authorize counties and municipalities to exempt vehicles of military personnel who receive eminent danger pay.
Municipal and county law enforcement officer; allow spouse of officer killed in the line of duty to purchase officer's sidearm.
Out of committee · 1
Homeowners insurance; require premium discount for property built or retrofitted to resist hurricanes.
In committee · 2
Lauderdale County; authorize to fund chaplaincy program of the detention facility from revenue of inmate phone service.
Bonds; authorize to assist in the establishment of the GRAMMY Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi.