Bills in the 2012 Regular Session, House.
John L. Moore
Sponsored
Became law8
Gun permits; revise reciprocity.
Student grades; prohibit certain school administrators and district employees from influencing a change in.
Office of Educator Misconduct Evaluations; establish to provide administrative due process for licensure violations.
Appropriation; Education, Department of.
Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for.
Appropriation; Library Commission.
Appropriation; Archives and History, Department of.
Appropriation; Arts Commission.
Passed the House17
School Textbook Fund; clarify purposes for which funds may be used.
MAEP; increase amount of funds pledged for security for State Aid Capitol Improvement Bonds to $195.00 per pupil.
Commission on School District Efficiency; require the State Board of Education to establish.
Classroom supplies; authorize issuance of procurement cards to classroom teachers to purchase.
Central School District Shared Services Office System; require each county to establish implementation schedule.
School district employees; delete donated leave to employees of the other school districts except for immediate relatives.
Reading Sufficiency Program of Instruction; repeal.
School districts; require the appointment of superintendent by governing authority in those abolished by Governor.
Education Employment Procedures Law; clarify deadline for notification of nonreemployment.
Advanced placement courses; delete requirement for State Department of Education to approve of for high schools.
Conversion charter school; require transitional year for conversion of certain chronically under-performing schools.
School accreditation; authorize State Board of Education to withdraw for districts violating accreditation standards.
Dual enrollment/credit; clarify requirements for high school students.
Office of Dropout Prevention; clarify responsibility of.
New Start School; require transitional year after being considered failing 3 consecutive school years.
Eligibility of children in certain licensed residential facilities to receive federal education funds; provide.
Sales tax; exempt retail sales of school supplies during the last weekend in July.
Out of committee3
Teacher Classroom and Disciplinary Control Act; create.
Elected school boards; elect all members at time of presidential election.
MS Public Charter School Act of 2012; enact to establish new process for creating.
In committee46
Distinctive license tag; authorize issuance to supporters of the Mississippi Damage Prevention Council.
Medicaid; recipients shall be subject to random drug tests for eligibility to continue receiving benefits.
Income tax; phase out for corporations.
Municipal annexation; require approval by majority of electors in municipality and in territory to be annexed.
Partisan Judicial Elections; authorize.
Teachers; extend years for annual incremental increases from 35 to 40 years.
National board certified school employees; remove requirement that annual salary supplement be subject to legislative appropriation.
Radar; authorize sheriffs in certain counties to use.
Driver's license; allow a licensee to not list his physical home address on.
Crimes; revise penalties for fraudulent use of identity of another.
Student testing; prohibit requirement that teachers readminister test to student on more than one occasion.
County school board members; require to declare party affiliation and be elected by a majority vote.
Schools; establish opening and closing dates of the scholastic year.
"Truth in Grading Act"; create to require the State Board of Education to adopt a uniform grading policy for the state.
School district funds; prohibit receipt of by certain schools or school districts having an established minimum grading policy.
"Truth in Grading Act"; create to require school districts to adopt a uniform grading policy.
MAEP; bring forward sections relating to for purpose of possible revisions.
School vouchers; authorize State Department of Education to issue under the MS School Choice Scholarship Program.
Tax levy to support school districts; authorize levying authority to veto school board request for increase up to seven percent.
Mississippi judicial system; prohibit from using international or Sharia law.
School superintendents; revise minimum qualification of for purpose of being employed as.
School vouchers; establish program to provide for students with special needs to attend school of choice.
School districts; authorize to issue procurement cards for travel expenses.
Teachers and teacher assistants; clarify deduction of cost of from pay of established substitute amount of.
School districts; restrict discharge of teachers and administrators under certain instances of reduced district funding.
State Longitudinal Data System; revise date of implementation of.
Capital murder; provide death penalty for murder of two or more persons.
Capital murder; apply to multiple murders.
Rape; death penalty for conviction if victim is age 13 or under.
Agency rules and regulations; require legislative approval before becoming effective.
English language; require all state documents to be produced in.
Vote fraud; revise penalty.
State Superintendent of Public Education; elect at general state election.
Ad valorem tax; require cities/counties to reduce millage rate for purposes of proposed increase where assessed value increases.
MAEP funds; revise date state pays to school districts, and require monthly direct deposit for all school district employees.
Exemplary Inclusive School Award Program; clarify implementation by SDE for children with disabilities.
Low-Income Student Scholarship and Family Tax Credit Act; enact.
Central School District Shared Services Office System in each county; establish implementation schedule.
School accountability system; revise to include ranking by Grades of "A" through "F".
Social promotion; prohibit of students in Grade 3 who are reading deficient and require intensive reading instruction.
Parental choice open enrollment; provide options to enroll students in any school within the state.
Retirement; authorize counties to pay PERS employer contributions on net fee income of constables.
Constables; increase fee in criminal cases, revise reimbursement for travel expenses.
Exceptional children; authorize parents of to record IEP meeting with three-day notice to the school district.
Advisory panel on special education; clarify definition of parent and revise composition of.
Income tax; authorize deduction for private school tuition, expenses for home schooled students and certain public school expenses.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 30
Child Protection Act and Child Rape Protection Act; enact.
Sunshine Act; create for agencies hiring attorneys.
Sales tax; exempt sales of utilities to churches.
DUI; create child endangerment provision.
School Start Date Act of 2012; enact to restrict the start of a new academic year.
Blind Persons' Literacy Rights and Education Act; revise.
MS Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program; create to provide dyslexic students with school choice.
Mississippi Dyslexia Education Scholarship Program; create.
Rankin County; authorize donation of certain real property to the Mississippi Burn Foundation.
Appropriation; Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District.
Appropriation; Public Employees' Retirement System.
Appropriation; Oil and Gas Board.
Appropriation; Real Estate Commission.
Appropriation; Real Estate Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board.
Appropriation; Athletic Commission.
Appropriation; Medical Licensure, Board of.
Appropriation; Physical Therapy Board.
Appropriation; Psychology, Board of.
Appropriation; Coast Coliseum Commission.
Appropriation; Nursing Home Administrators, Board of.
Appropriation; Nursing, Board of.
Appropriation; Engineers and Land Surveyors, Board of Registration for Professional.
Appropriation; Cosmetology, Board of.
Appropriation; Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Examiners for.
Appropriation; Veterans' Home Purchase Board.
Appropriation; Auctioneers Commission.
Appropriation; Barber Examiners, Board of.
Appropriation; Optometry, Board of.
City of Florence; extend repealer on city's bars and restaurants.
Rankin County; authorize contribution to nonprofit organizations that provide recreational/sports activities for county youth.
Passed the House · 6
Illegal immigration; strengthen enforcement provisions to prevent.
Income tax; increase credit for ad valorem tax paid on inventory.
Gun buy-back programs; prohibit.
Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act/Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act; create.
Alcoholic beverages; revise definition of qualified resort area under the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
Dual enrollment - dual credit work skills certificate program in high school and community college; establish pilot program.
Out of committee · 1
Public Safety Verification and Enforcement Act; create.
In committee · 19
Hospitals; Department of Health shall authorize to establish and operate off-campus emergency departments.
Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program; clarify certain provisions regarding.
Classroom supply funds; require annual allotment before November 1 to full-time and part-time teachers.
Rankin County; authorize sheriff to use radar on county roads.
District attorneys; provide additional legal assistants for the 20th Circuit Court District.
State parole board; require to submit report to Governor regarding petition for pardon by person convicted of felony crime.
Armed robbery; provide for minimum prison sentence of 10 years.
Extracurricular and athletic activities; require students to maintain a 2.0 weekly grade point average for participation.
Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act of 2012; create.
Katie's Law; require DNA testing for all felony arrests.
Controlled substances; felony to bring into state, county or municipal facility.
Parole; require offender serve at least 1/3 of sentence and that commissioner recommend parole before offender is eligible for.
Income tax; authorize a credit for portion of costs paid by company in relocating national or regional headquarters to this state.
Nonprofit religious organizations; exempt from lease payments to Pearl River Valley Water Supply District.
State institutions; patients admitted for less than three months not required to pay social security disability benefits to the institution.
Mississippi Public Charter Schools Act of 2012; enact to establish new process for creating.
Public assistance benefits; combined incomes of all persons in same household used to determine eligibility for.
MS Health Care Industry Zone Act; create and provide certain tax incentives for qualified businesses located in.
Rankin County; authorize to provide recreational grants to certain qualifying entities.