Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Andy Gipson
Sponsored
Became law1
School boards; require elected members to be elected by majority vote and hold runoffs three weeks later.
Passed the House4
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; authorize ninth round for counties and municipalities.
Mississippi Human Embryo Adoption Act; create.
DHS; maintain database of organizations providing meals to elderly, to notify persons on DHS waiting list.
Income tax and insurance premium tax; authorize credit for qualified investments in certain small business ventures.
In committee9
Appropriation; Insurance Department for Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program and Supplementary Program.
Public utilities; create "Mississippi Renewable Energy Development Act of 2009."
Destructive Human Embryo Research Act; create.
Bonds; increase amount authorized for the Supplementary Rural Fire Truck Fund and the Rural Fire Truck Fund.
Fire protection districts; prohibit board of supervisors from taxing property annexed by municipality, bring forward certain sections.
Assistant teachers; clarify that school districts may not reduce local supplement when Legislature increase salary.
Grandparents' visitation; revise grandparent rights.
Wills and estates; clarify definition of successor of certain decedents.
Public contracts; give preference to resident bidders, and prescribe specific penalties for violations.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Sales taxation; exempt retail sales of certain clothing during the last weekend in July.
Fuller Center for Housing, Inc.; provide certain benefits to.
U.S. Highway 90; designate certain highway bridge thereon as "Leo W. Seal, Jr., Memorial Bridge."
Sales tax; revise definition of "business" to exclude sales of meals/food at colleges when paid by students with certain cards/accounts.
Cities and counties; authorize to donate to chapters of Boys and Girls Club within the city or county.
Rankin County; authorize contribution to nonprofit organizations that provide recreational/sports activities for county youth.
Rankin County; authorize hiring of two part-time assistant county prosecuting attorneys for.
Vetoed · 1
Counties; authorize to expend certain levy proceeds for roads and bridges.
Passed the House · 4
University Medical Center; authorize to donate food to charitable organizations.
Clayton P. Henderson; name Marks Vegetable Processing Facility operated by Alcorn State University after.
Election Reform Act; create with same day registration, early voting and certain crimes expunged.
Sales tax; revise rate on certain sales of tractors, farm implements, logging/pulpwood equipment, repair parts and labor.
In committee · 19
Rankin County; authorize sheriff to use radar on county roads.
Fire protection districts; prohibit boards of supervisors from taxing real properties annexed by municipalities.
Rankin assistant prosecuting attorney; authorize employment of as many part-time as needed.
Fire protection districts; revise voting requirement of board of commissioners for reducing boundaries of.
Homestead exemption; extend to unremarried surviving spouses of totally disabled veterans.
Beaver control program; transfer administration to the Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
Radar; authorize sheriff and deputy sheriffs to use on county roads to enforce speed limits.
Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine; restrict sale of to pharmacies only.
Low income housing; remove certain provision relating to the manner of appraisal.
Voter ID; enact.
Underage Drinking Prevention and Enforcement Act; create.
DUI; revise use of ignition interlock device.
State officers and agencies; authorize to appoint or employ special counsel.
Child abuse; provide penalties for false reports and enact child protection managers.
Legal gaming; limit to counties in which it is already being conducted.
Photo voter identification; require when a person appears to vote at registrar's office or polling place.
School districts; create additional exemptions from certain duties in districts accredited at Level 4 or 5.
Driver's license; allow translation of birth certificate of foreign-born applicant to be translated by college or university.
Municipalities; revise authority to clean private property.