Bills in the 2010 Regular Session, Senate.
J. P. Wilemon, Jr.
Sponsored
Became law3
Bullying or harassing behavior in the schools; prohibit.
Election commissioners; authorize counties to pay per diem for an additional five days.
Memorial Highway; designate certain segment of MS Highway 23 in Itawamba County as the "Tammy Wynette Memorial Highway."
Passed the Senate1
City of Fulton; authorize a tax on hotels and motels.
In committee9
General Fund estimate; limit to 7-year average and deposit any excess into Working Cash-Stabilization Fund.
"Mississippi Postsecondary Textbook Pricing and Access Act of 2010"; enact to assist students in obtaining the lowest textbook cost.
School-sponsored athletic programs; any student maintaining passing grades may participate.
Public Service Commission; regulate cable and satellite television systems.
Homestead exemption; provide for certain owners of manufactured homes or mobile homes.
Seat belts; revise exemptions to cover mechanics.
Adequate education program appropriation and local school district budgets to identify program funding categories; require.
Headlights; require use of when windshield wipers necessary.
Animal cruelty; revise.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Mississippi Public Health Laboratory; name for Dr. Ed Thompson.
Armed Forces Absentee Voting Law; make changes to comply with federal law.
Appropriation; Ethics Comm.
Appropriation; Judicial Performance Comm.
Appropriation; Bd. of Architecture.
Appropriation; Mississippi Board of Registered Professional Geologists.
Appropriation; Motor Vehicle Comm.
Appropriation; Bd. of Public Accountancy.
Appropriation; Public Contractors Bd.
In committee · 3
Ad valorem tax; local governing authorities may grant an exemption of homesteads of certain residents serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Wastewater; remove revisions to the individual on-site wastewater disposal system law.
Income tax; authorize job tax credit for new cut and sew jobs in the upholstered household furniture manufacturing industry.