Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Adrienne Wooten
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Municipalities; revise authority to clean menaced property.
In committee8
Check cashers; reduce maximum rate of interest that may be charged for cashing checks.
Mortgages; establish foreclosure procedures giving borrowers a chance to modify their loans first.
Unemployment benefits; remove one-week waiting period.
Controlled substances; revise penalty for possession of small amount of certain.
Expunction; revise.
Drug courts; revise participation requirements.
MS Legislature; require all members to be drug tested.
Mortgages; establish alternative foreclosure procedures giving borrowers a chance to modify their loans first.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 2
Memorial highways; designate segment in Clay County as the "Representative David Gibbs Memorial Highway".
State Dept. of Education; authorize to prescribe appropriate measures for failure to timely file mandatory reports.
Passed the House · 2
Gale Stauffer, Jr. and Joseph Maher Law Enforcement Act of 2014; create.
Bonds; authorize issuance to provide funds to assist Hinds County in construction of the Byram-Clinton Parkway Project.
In committee · 19
MS Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program; create.
Assistant teachers; require school districts to notify of nonreemployment within 10 days after adoption of budget.
Teachers classroom supply funds; restrict diverting funds specified for from appropriation for other purposes.
Medicaid; expand eligibility under federal health care reform law.
Judges; provide additional judge for Seventh Circuit Court District.
Contracts; require to be written in large print.
Handicapped parking; delete requirement for physician's certification annually upon renewing special tag.
Distinctive license tag; authorize issuance to supporters of Moss Point High School.
Legal holiday; last Monday of April celebrated as Confederate Memorial Day and Civil Rights Memorial Day.
Exceptional children; require school districts to develop policy for disciplining.
Board of Education; require those in district having a mayor-council form of government to be elected.
Employee wages; require to be paid equally for women and men.
Law enforcement; require pursuit policy of alleged crime perpetrator.
Emergency Crops Fund; require MDA to provide $1 million to the MSFAC at Alcorn for shitake mushroom expansion.
Emerging Crops Fund; require MDA to increase amount provided to the MSFAC at Alcorn to $1,000,000.00.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Oxycontin pills; limit RX to 75 pills per RX unless patient is hospitalized or in nursing home.
Income and franchise tax; allow refundable credit for costs of purchasing/leasing & installing solar electric energy system.
City of Vicksburg; authorize to contribute funds and in-kind maintenance services to Beulah Cemetery.