Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
John L. Moore
Sponsored
In committee33
Sales tax; phase out on sales of certain food and increase diversion to municipalities.
Vote fraud; revise penalty.
Gaming; distances from U.S. Highway 90 applying to legal gaming in Harrison County limited to highway location on August 28, 2005.
Sales tax; no diversion to municipality of revenue derived from sale of tobacco if municipality prohibits/restricts tobacco use.
Municipal annexation; require approval by majority of electors in municipality and in territory to be annexed.
County school boards; members shall be elected by a majority vote.
State license or benefits; must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident and show ability in English to receive.
Homestead exemption; extend to unremarried surviving spouses of totally disabled veterans.
Teachers; extend years for annual incremental increases to 40.
Schools; establish opening and closing dates of scholastic year.
State Superintendent of Public Education; elect at general state election.
Elected school boards; elect all members at time of presidential election.
Ad valorem taxes; delete school boards' authority to increase without referendum approval.
Sales tax; temporarily reduce rate on retain sales of private carriers of passengers and light carriers of property.
Ad valorem taxation; revise manner of determining true value of homestead property.
Homestead exemption; increase.
Income tax; phase out for corporations.
Radar; authorize sheriffs in certain counties to use.
Nonpartisan Judicial Election Act; repeal.
Rape; death penalty for conviction if victim is age 13 or under.
Capital murder; apply to multiple murders.
Sales tax; reduce rate on retail sales of motorcycles.
English language; require all state documents to be produced in.
Tax levy to support school districts; authorize levying authority to veto school board request for increase up to seven percent.
Civil Rights Education Commission; repeal provisions creating.
Capital murder; provide death penalty for murder of two or more persons.
Agency rules and regulations; require legislative approval.
Crimes; include certain firemen in impersonation prohibition.
Ad valorem tax; require cities/counties to reduce millage rate for purposes of proposed increase where assessed value increases.
Contract lobbyists; prohibit agencies and universities and colleges from hiring with public funds.
English language; must show ability in to get state license or public assistance.
Public employee; prohibit from using a public resource for a candidate's campaign or ballot issue.
Distinctive license tag; revise distribution of fees collected from tags displaying emblem of certain out-of-state universities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Sales taxation; exempt retail sales of certain clothing during the last weekend in July.
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.
School boards; require elected members to be elected by majority vote and hold runoffs three weeks later.
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.
Passed the House · 5
Mississippi Human Embryo Adoption Act; create.
Columbia Training School property; authorize lease for ICFMR facility and for public purposes.
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.
Absentee ballots; authorize circuit clerk to vote them on voting machine.
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.
Fire protection districts; prohibit board of supervisors from taxing property annexed by municipality, bring forward certain sections.
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.
Public utilities, certain; require to offer live customer service assistance to ratepayers.
Voter ID; enact.
Underage Drinking Prevention and Enforcement Act; create.
Sex offender registration; revise offenses requiring registration.
Ad valorem tax; reduce amount by which county and municipal revenues may increase from preceding year.
Covenant marriage; enact as form of marriage.
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.